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Australian gigafactory plans

advancing after licensing deal

Battery start-up Cadenza The terms of Energy Re- in preliminary orders — mostly due to the complex
Innovation announced on naissance’s agreement with the exact initial capacity of inter-dependence of tech-
February 20 it had signed Cadenza Innovation have the facility. nology, industrial automa-
a licensing agreement not been disclosed. The company plans to tion and off-take negotia-
with Energy Renaissance, Energy Renaissance’s begin a 12-month con- tions.
the company that has a 1.3GWh Renaissance One struction and commis- It said early reticence
memorandum of under- facility will manufacture sioning process this July, from institutional firms to
standing with the Darwin commercial-scale cells, around six months after its invest in early stage Aus-
government to build a initially using imported initial start date. tralian advanced manufac-
lithium ion gigafactory in wound jelly-rolls and elec- The company said de- turing had hampered the
Australia. trolyte. Eventually the velopment work had been raising of pre-project fi-
The deal gives the Aus- company aims to source all slower than anticipated, nance capital.
tralian company exclu- processed materials from
sive manufacturing rights Australia.
of the US firm’s patented To date the company Australia deal paves way
technology in Australia has secured A$64 million
and worldwide sales rights, ($46 million) in equity and for 34MWh of energy
excluding China and the A$47 million in debt and
US. obtained around 300MWh storage deployment

Firms join to bring 10MW A framework contract storage across 70 sites dur-
ing the next 18 months.
worth A$304 million ($214
The Adelaide headquar-
grid-connected ESS to India million) was announced on tered firm is expected to mo-
February 20 by SA Water
and South Australian com- bilize the first group of sites,
pany Enerven, a wholly including large facilities
owned subsidiary of power like the Bolivar Wastewater
transmission firm SA Power Treatment Plant and Mor-
Networks. gan Water Treatment Plant,
The deal allows Enerven in the first half of this year.
to deploy around 154MW SA Water has a goal of
of solar photovoltaic gener- achieving zero net electricity
ation and 34MW of energy costs next year.

Australia to pilot CAES
technology in disused mine

Plans to turn a disused through its Renewable
mine in South Australia Technology Fund.
into a compressed air The commercial dem-
energy storage facility by onstration project will
Tata Power, The AES Mitsubishi Corporation, Hydrostor Australia, a provide synchronous
Corporation and Mit- with Fluence supplying its subsidiary of the Canadi- inertia, load shifting and
subishi Corporation an- Advancion technology. an start-up, announced on frequency regulation,
nounced on February 13 The energy storage sys- February 8 the Australian reliability and security-of-
they had inaugurated a tem in Rohini, Delhi is the Renewable Energy Agency supply services to the grid.
10MW/10MWh lithium joint biggest storage sys- had earmarked A$6 mil- ARENA CEO Darren
ion energy storage system tem in India according to lion ($4 million) for the Miller said: “Compressed
project in India. the Department of Energy project. air storage has the
The system at Tata Power storage database. The 5MW/10MWh potential to provide
Delhi Distribution’s Rohini Panasonic and AES India pilot project to re-purpose similar benefits to pumped
Substation will provide released plans in 2016 to the Angas Zinc Mine hydro energy storage,
peak load management, build a 10MW/10MWh in Strathalbyn, 60km however it has the added
system flexibility, frequen- energy storage facility in southeast of Adelaide will benefits of being flexible
cy regulation and security Haryana, India. Plans in- cost A$30million. It has with location and topog-
of supply to more than two cluded using AES’s Advan- also received A$3 million raphy, such as utilising a
million customers. cion platform in conjunc- in funding from the South cavern already created at
The grid-connected sys- tion with Panasonic’s Australian government a disused mine site.”
tem is owned by AES and lithium ion batteries.

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