Spain's Ingeteam commissions 10-MW BESS in Australia

Spanish electrical engineering company Ingeteam SA said on Tuesday that it has commissioned a 10-MW/20-MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Australia.

The BESS is located in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and is associated with the 109-MW Berrybank 2 wind farm in the state of Victoria. Both projects are the fruit of investments made by Global Power Generation (GPG), a joint venture of Spanish utility Naturgy Energy Group SA (BME:NTGY) and Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA).

For Ingeteam, the ACT BESS was its first large-scale storage project in Australia that required a comprehensive supply. The Spanish company supplied two power conversion systems, four 2.5-MW/5-MWh battery storage containers and the control system to manage the operation of the entire storage plant. In addition to commissioning, Ingeteam is also in charge of the operation and maintenance via its local subsidiary, the firm said.

Now online, the BESS will support ACT’s distribution network at the Queanbeyan substation, in partnership with the region's transmission grid service provider, TransGrid. GPG will start operating the Berrybank 2 wind farm in the coming months, Ingeteam added.

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