{"id":64144,"date":"2022-08-08T08:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=64144"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:32:37","slug":"kwinana-big-battery-mb2584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/","title":{"rendered":"WA&#8217;s Biggest Battery: KBESS Construction Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64145\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64145\" class=\"wp-image-64145 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery.jpg\" alt=\"Kwinana Big Battery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-64145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KBESS: Artist&#8217;s Impression<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first energy storage units were installed at Synergy&#8217;s big battery site in the Perth suburb of Kwinana on Friday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\" dir=\"ltr\">The 100MW\/200MWh Kwinana Battery Storage System (KBESS), situated behind the decommissioned Kwinana Power Station<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/#en-64144-1' id='enref-64144-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(64144)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, will consist of <\/span> 600 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catl.com\/en\/\">CATL<\/a> LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) battery units.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64146\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/catl-battery-kwinana.jpg\" alt=\"CATL Batteries - Kwinana\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/catl-battery-kwinana.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/catl-battery-kwinana-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/catl-battery-kwinana-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally announced by WA Premier Mark McGowan\u00a0 and Minister for Energy Bill Johnston in October 2020, New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA &#8211; formerly Electro Power Systems- Engie EPS) was awarded the contract for construction of KBESS in October last year. The facility should be operational by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Synergy Pilots and Trials | Big Battery Project - Artist&#039;s Impression\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ud23LSj1n2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The WA Government is stumping up most of the cash ($140 million) for KBESS, and the Federal Government has chipped in $15 million.<\/p>\n<h2>KBESS Supporting WA&#8217;s Coal-Free Transition<\/h2>\n<p>KBESS will support system stability and help with the transition to increased renewables; soaking up surplus energy generated by rooftop solar power systems<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/#en-64144-2' id='enref-64144-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(64144)'>2<\/a><\/sup> during the day and discharging it into the grid when electricity demand increases during the late afternoons and evenings.<\/p>\n<p>The Kwinana Big Battery will provide important learnings for future Synergy energy storage projects. And there&#8217;s a lot more to come &#8211; 1,100 megawatts of capacity over the next five years. This was announced as part of a projected $3.8 billion investment in renewable generation and energy storage in the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-coal-power-closures-mb2514\/\">WA dumps coal power<\/a> and moves towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wa-climate-policy-mb1782\/\">net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Increasing energy storage over the next decade will be crucial to addressing system security risks, such as high levels of rooftop solar generation, and ensuring reliable power supply to Western Australia&#8217;s main electricity grid,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au\/Pages\/McGowan\/2022\/08\/Installation-begins-on-WA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s-biggest-battery.aspx\">said WA Energy Minister Bill Johnston<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kwinana MLA Roger Cook seems pretty pumped about the big battery project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is another significant stride into the future for the Kwinana industrial area, and the local community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The technology and expertise in Kwinana makes huge contributions to the State&#8217;s economy. But on top of this, Kwinana is also playing a key role in the energy transformation of our State.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The KBESS project is creating close to 140 jobs during the construction phase.<\/p>\n<p>As well as being home to around 45,800 (it&#8217;s the second fastest growing local government area in Western Australia), the City of Kwinana is a major industrial area. The Kwinana Strategic Industrial Area is a centre for chemical and resource based processing industries &#8211; including lithium processing.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s first battery-grade lithium hydroxide was produced at Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia&#8217;s plant in Kwinana in May this year. The plant is one of the few battery-grade lithium hydroxide facilities outside of China at this point in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first energy storage units were installed at Synergy&#8217;s big battery site in the Perth suburb of Kwinana on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":64145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WA&#039;s Biggest Battery: KBESS Construction Update<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The first energy storage units were installed at Synergy&#039;s big battery site in the Perth suburb of Kwinana on Friday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WA&#039;s Biggest Battery: KBESS Construction Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first energy storage units were installed at Synergy&#039;s big battery site in the Perth suburb of Kwinana on Friday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-07T21:31:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-07T21:32:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"WA&#8217;s Biggest Battery: KBESS Construction Update\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-07T21:31:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-07T21:32:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/\"},\"wordCount\":527,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/kwinana-big-battery-mb2584\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/kwinana-big-battery.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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