Collie will host considered one of Australia’s largest Tesla remanufacturing amenities after the WA authorities reached an settlement with the Elon Musk-headed firm to help the coal city’s transition to a renewables business.
The power will service Tesla’s grid-scale megapack batteries and different Tesla merchandise and is predicted to service residential Tesla batteries and automobile charging tools as soon as at scale.
To be constructed subsequent to Neoen’s Collie battery undertaking, it’s anticipated to be operational by 2026 and create round 50 jobs for native employees.
The memorandum of understanding, signed in December, comes because the state continues efforts to transition Collie from a coal-powered business city to a renewables financial system.
Talking at a press convention in Collie to announce the deal, WA Premier Roger Cook dinner mentioned in 2024, due to his authorities’s Collie Simply Transition initiative, the city’s workforce grew by 4.5 per cent.
“In only a few quick years, we’re attracting main new industries to city to arrange Collie for the long run,” he mentioned.
“Batteries are a vital a part of WA’s vitality transition. Batteries imply we are able to proceed to develop renewable vitality, ensuring it play its function to get us out of coal and out of gasoline as a lot as doable.
“Behind us is the Neoen Collie battery, which is WA’s largest battery system, but in addition the largest grid scale battery within the nation.”
Mr Cook dinner mentioned the power would allow decreased emissions and improved logistics throughout the state’s renewables choices.
“This implies quicker repairs on batteries for WA and can assist to encourage extra battery uptake throughout the state,” he mentioned.
“It additionally signifies that there’s much less logistics related to servicing these batteries, once more, taking the chance to decrease emissions and persevering with the march in direction of inexperienced vitality future.
“Importantly, this facility will create high quality native manufacturing jobs right here in West right here in Colley.”
Neoen initially announce the Collie Tesla megapack undertaking in June 2023, and in underneath 18 months took the undertaking from floor breaking to operation.
Stage one of many undertaking, now on-line, gives 219-megawatt/877 MWh battery capability.
Stage two of the Neoen undertaking, resulting from be operational in This fall 2025, will ship an additional 341 MW/1363MWh capability.
As soon as totally operational, the Neoen undertaking is touted to have the power to cost and discharge 20 per cent of the South West Interconnected System’s common demand.
It’s Neoen’s first undertaking in WA, with the French firm additionally engaged to ship comparable scale batteries in Blythe, South Australia; Western Downs, Queensland; and the ACT.
It already has an operational 300 MW/450 MWh battery in Victoria and a 150 MW/193.5 MWh battery in South Australia.
