The Victorian Big Battery is a 300 MW grid-scale battery storage project in Geelong, Australia which stores enough energy in reserve to power over one million Victorian homes for 1/2 an hour.
Victoria fast-tracks battery storage project for a sustainable energy future: The Victorian Government is assisting a renewable energy developer fast track its Battery Energy Storage System —now approved through the Development Facilitation Program.
Will Victorian Government approve a battery energy storage system?
The Victorian government has fast tracked the approval of what is to be one of the state's biggest battery energy storage systems as it seeks to accelerate the development of projects to support its renewable energy ambitions.
The Victorian Big battery project is located near Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Image courtesy of Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The Victorian Big Battery (VBB) project is a 300MW/450MWh battery energy storage project under construction in Victoria, Australia. It will be the biggest battery storage facility in Australia, upon commissioning.
Scheduled to enter service by the end of 2021, the Victorian Big lithium-ion battery project will store cheap solar and wind energy and can power approximately one million Victorian homes for 30 minutes. It will support peak load on Victoria's electricity transmission network while helping to prevent grid blackouts.
The Victorian Big battery storage facility also houses two 180MVA 220/33kV power transformers that were energised in July 2021. The electricity from the Victorian Big battery energy storage facility will be transmitted through a 220kV power line connecting AusNet's Moorabool electrical substation.
As it happens, it was an Acenergy battery project that was first to be approved under Victoria's fast-track program; the Joel Joel Battery Energy Storage Project being developed in Victoria's Wimmera region at the same size and duration (350 MW/ 700 MWh) as the Little River BESS.