http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2018/04/wind-plus-storage-for-smart-farming-moves-ahead-in-australia.html
Wind Plus Storage for Smart Farming Moves Ahead in Australia
April 10, 2018
By Renewable Energy World Editors
Clean energy developer Neoen Australia has selected Siemens Gamesa
Renewable Energy (SGRE) to support development of a wind power plus
energy storage facility that will power a smart crop farm in Western
Victoria, Australia.
The facility will assist the expansion of Stawell, Australia-based
Nectar Farms, an environmentally friendly agriculture business that uses
glasshouses, hydroponics and high-wire cultivation.
The government of Victoria in January completed a 15-year support
agreement with Neoen Australia for delivery of the integrated energy
project, called Bulgana Green Power Hub. The government said at the time
that the project would include a 204-MW wind farm and 20-MW battery with
an undisclosed storage capacity. SGRE today said that it has been
commissioned to build a 194-MW wind farm and a 20-MW/34MWh lithium-ion
battery. EPC construction is set to begin right away and the
commissioning of the facility is expected by August 2019, according to SGRE.
It is estimated that 97 percent of Nectar Farms’ needs will be supplied
by 15 percent of all of the electricity generated at the wind plus
storage facility, with the rest going to the local grid.
