Battery Storage Energy

Battery Storage power in the Australian Energy Market

% MW

Battery Storage Energy Production During March 2021

The default, capacity factor graph shows the output as a percentage of registered capacity. Alternatively, you may view the actual output in megawatts.

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Data for the month-long graphs is sampled at 3 hour intervals to reduce the number of data points.

Battery Storage Generators

ID	Name	Source/Technology	Registered Capacity (MW)
South Australia (SA1)
DALNTH01	Dalrymple North Battery Energy Storage System	Grid, Battery	30
HPRG1	Hornsdale Power Reserve	Wind, Battery and Inverter	150
LBBG1	Lake Bonney BESS1	Grid, Battery	25
			205
Victoria (VIC1)
BALBG1	Ballarat Battery Energy Storage System	Grid, Battery	30
GANNBG1	Gannawarra Energy Storage System	Grid, Battery	31
			61
Total registered
			266

About the Australian Electricity Grid

The electricity grid managed by the AEMO covers New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania and is the world's largest interconnected power system.

The interface between generators (producers of energy) and consumers (industrial users, businesses and homes) is known as the National Electricity Market (NEM). It is the system though which the supply of energy to local distributors is managed, along with the price of that energy.

Most of Australia's electricity needs are fulfilled by power stations which burn fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to drive steam turbines.

A large part is also played by hydroelectric power stations while wind power contributes in line with meteorological conditions.

There are also many smaller generators which use solar technology, biomass, bagasse etc. to create electricity.

A relative newcomer is the installation, en masse, of domestic rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV). AEMO provides daily files summarising the performance of rooftop solar generation by region.