Western Australia’s regional utility Horizon Power has
launched a project to deliver what it claims will be Australia’s largest solar
and storage-based microgrid once complete in early 2018.
The project, to be developed in the northwest town of
Onslow, will bring together a new 5.25 MW gas-fired power plant, with a mix of
distributed and utility-scale solar, to be coupled with battery storage.
“This will be Australia’s largest distributed energy
microgrid, creating a new era of energy competition and efficiency for
households and businesses,” said WA Energy Minister and Treasurer Mike Nahan,
in a statement announcing the project.
The project will see Onslow, a town used as a launching base
for the massive Wheatstone LNG project owned by Chevron, powered 50 per cent by
renewable energy by early 2018.
But Nahan said it was likely that would grow to around 70
per cent renewable energy, which is about the mark being reached, or planned to
reach, in smaller projects in King Island, Tasmania, and Coober Pedy in South
Australia.
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