{"id":193195,"date":"2024-07-20T02:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/first-stage-of-australias-biggest-battery-project-energised-to-start-flattening-solar-duck"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T07:22:49","slug":"first-stage-of-australias-biggest-battery-project-energised-to-start-flattening-solar-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/first-stage-of-australias-biggest-battery-project-energised-to-start-flattening-solar-duck","title":{"rendered":"First stage of Australia\u2019s biggest battery project energised to start flattening solar duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-stage-of-australias-biggest-battery-project-energised-to-start-flattening-solar-duck2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first stage of what will be Australia\u2019s biggest battery project has been energised \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/neoen-and-tesla-to-build-giant-four-hour-battery-in-landmark-deal-to-flatten-solar-duck\/\" class=\"\">little more than a year after securing its development contract<\/a> \u2013 and will soon be in operation to help flatten the growing solar duck in Western Australia\u2019s main grid.<\/p>\n<p>The Collie battery is being built by Neoen in two stages, including a 219 MW\/877 MWh first stage that was among the first winners of special contracts issued last year to soak up rooftop solar in the middle of the day and time shift it to the evening peak.<\/p>\n<p>A second stage of the battery \u2013 even bigger at 341 MW and 1,263 MWh \u2013 won a similar contract in a new tender held earlier this year and will become the biggest battery in the country when complete at 560 MW and 2,240 MWh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage of what will be Australia\u2019s biggest battery project has been energised \u2013 little more than a year after securing its development contract \u2013 and will soon be in operation to help flatten the growing solar duck in Western Australia\u2019s main grid. The Collie battery is being built by Neoen in two stages, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}