GE Vernova mentioned it has been chosen by funding supervisor Quinbrook Infrastructure Companions to combine 250 MW/1,000 MWh of battery vitality storage into a significant information heart complicated in Queensland, Australia.
Quinbook, with U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas, and workplaces within the UK and Australia, is a specialist funding supervisor targeted on the vitality transition via renewables, vitality storage, and grid infrastructure. The corporate’s Supernode undertaking includes creation of a battery vitality storage system (BESS) and information heart. The BESS is anticipated to be among the many largest such installations in Australia.
The 250-MW/1,000-MWh BESS (four-hour period) is the second stage of a proposed three-stage undertaking. GE Vernova earlier was awarded the contract for integration of a 250-MW/500-MWh BESS (two-hour period) for the primary section of Supernode, which already is underway.
“We consider GE Vernova’s product portfolio, engineering experience, and undertaking supply capabilities align completely with the wants of the Supernode undertaking,” mentioned Ed Torres, enterprise chief of GE Vernova’s Photo voltaic & Storage Options enterprise. “This undertaking is a testomony to the power of our worth proposition and capabilities on this house. We count on to proceed to be a valued and trusted collaborator for big grid-scale built-in BESS tasks within the area and all over the world. We thank Quinbrook for his or her continued belief in GE Vernova as a expertise associate for the Supernode undertaking.”
GE Vernova is answerable for the provision and commissioning of the facility conditioning techniques, energy plant controller SCADA techniques, and capacitor financial institution/harmonic filter in addition to integration engineering and GPS connection help.
—Darrell Proctor is senior editor for POWER (@POWERmagazine).
