One of Australia’s largest coal-fired power stations—that supplies a quarter of New South Wales’ (NSW) energy needs—will soon close and be replaced by the country’s largest battery in the rush to reach net-zero.
On April 20, Origin Energy, one of the “Big Three” energy providers, servicing 4.2 million households and businesses, said it would spend around $600 million (US$403 million) to construct a battery system at the site of its Eraring Power Station.
The company said it had finalised agreements with its business partners, and construction work will commence in the next few weeks.
In the first stage of the construction, Origin plans to build a 460-megawatt battery storage system with a dispatch duration of two hours by the final quarter of 2025….