Trina Solar to develop 500 MW Kiewa Valley battery energy storage project

Its capacity is enough to energise up to 172,000 homes.

Chinese company Trina Solar is set to build the 500-megawatt Kiewa Valley Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in North-East Victoria.

According to authorities, the $453m battery project will help “soak up and store cheap renewable energy during the day and pump it back into the grid at times of peak demand. Its capacity is enough to power up to 172,000 Victorian homes a year.

This energy storage facility is one of the projects fast-tracked through the Labour Government’s Development Facilitation Program to deliver cleaner and cheaper energy projects sooner.

More than $5b worth of renewable energy projects have been fast-tracked through the development Facilitation Program. All together, these 19 projects have the potential to power around 570,000 households annually, and battery storage capable of meeting evening peak demand for more than 1.3 million households.