New Zealand launches into the energy future with battery facility
New Zealand's Energy Minister, Dr. Megan Woods, today launched New Zealand's first grid-scale battery storage facility in Auckland. Tesla's Powerpack batteries were commissioned by Mercury at its research and development center in South Auckland as part of an ambitious project to test the direct integration of battery storage into the New Zealand grid. The energy company will also gather knowledge about traded energy storage and the relationship between stored electricity and the renewable hydro and geothermal energy sources in its generation portfolio.
Mercury has invested nearly $3 million in the project to learn more about how battery storage can more efficiently and flexibly use current generation capacity to meet consumer demand peaks, as well as New Zealand's large-scale renewable energy storage in water lakes. The potential size of a grid-connected battery storage facility at Mercury's South Auckland site, near the national grid, is 100 megawatts, with an output comparable to a medium-sized geothermal or hydroelectric plant.
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