South Australia’s second big battery takes peninsula off grid, as tests continue

South Australia’s second big battery – the Dalrymple North installation on the Yorke Peninsula south of Adelaide – has not quite completed its commissioning, but it is already showing some interesting innovations.

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Dalrymple North on the Yorke Peninsula.

On Wednesday, it went into “islanding” mode – taking a large part of the Yorke Peninsula “off the grid” and using the battery to supply the local consumers. It appears to have gone well.

The Dalrymple battery – the result of a long-running project known as ESCRI, or Energy Storage for Commercial Renewable Integration  – is expected to come into service “very soon”, according to Electranet, the state’s transmission company that owns the project.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Giles Parkinson - “South Australia’s second big battery takes peninsula off grid, as tests continue.”