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ROUNDUP: VPPs and 50MWh BESS financed in California, microgrids in Nigeria, Nissan second life project

July 1, 2022
News in brief from around the world in Energy Storage.
Neoen's Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the company's first Tesla Megapack BESS project in Australia. Image: Neoen.

Hornsdale Power Reserve issued with penalty for failure to deliver contingency services

June 29, 2022
Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia has been fined for breaching National Electricity Rules over a three month period in 2019.  
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PG&E reveals storage plans in climate strategy report, cuts ribbon on Elkhorn BESS

June 10, 2022
Californian investor-owned utility (IOU) PG&E has revealed its energy storage plans in a Climate Strategy Report and cut the ribbon on the 182.5MW Elkhorn battery energy storage system (BESS).
Victorian Big Battery. Image: Victoria State government.

Investigation confirms cause of fire at Tesla’s Victorian Big Battery in Australia

May 11, 2022
A liquid coolant leak caused thermal runaway in battery cells which started a fire at the 300MW/450MWh Victorian Big Battery in Australia.
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Tesla maintains 2030 target of 1,500GWh annual energy storage deployment

May 10, 2022
esla aims to reach annual deployments of energy storage totalling 1,500GWh by 2030, nearly four hundred times the amount it deployed last year, according to its 2021 recent impact report.
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Tesla supplying Power Pack for SpaceX Starbase 8MWh BESS expansion

May 5, 2022
Tesla looks set to supply its Power Pack battery energy storage system (BESS) to sister company SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility in Texas, which is expanding on-site storage by up to 8MWh.
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Tesla: Energy storage demand ‘remains significantly above’ production capacity

April 28, 2022
Tesla made 846MWh of battery energy storage system deployments in the first quarter of this year.
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PG&E commissions 182.5MW/730MWh Tesla BESS at Moss Landing

April 19, 2022
Californian investor-owned utility PG&E has commissioned the 182.5MW/730MWh battery energy storage system supplied by Tesla at its Moss Landing substation.
Saticoy, a 400MWh California BESS project onboarded to Power Factors' 'Drive' platform. Image: Arevon Asset Management.

Green Bitcoin mining proof of concept using Tesla solar and battery storage

April 13, 2022
Tesla’s Megapack as well as the company’s solar PV will power a Bitcoin mining facility in a proof of concept (POC) project in the US.
A solar and battery project Gannawarra, Victoria, completed in 2018 with some support from ARENA. Image: ARENA.

EnergyAustralia to take 180MWh of battery storage into the NEM for Edify Energy

April 13, 2022
EnergyAustralia will control and operate two large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) in a portfolio in development by Edify Energy. 

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