Prompted by the other article today, I’ve taken a look at published information about the required operations of the Victoria Big Battery (VBB) under the System Integrity Protection System (SIPS).
As the next step in recovering from a fire onsite during commissioning, Genex Power has released an ASX Announcement and the battery charged briefly on Friday 3rd Nov 2023 afternoon.
Seeing another reference to ‘Bouldercombe BESS only offline for a day’ on social media prompts this article, to prevent further misconceptions…
It’s Wednesday morning 27th September 2023 and the fire that started last night at Bouldercombe BESS (Tesla battery for Genex) is still burning.
Some activity alerts prompt this short look at how the Victoria Big Battery is recovering from the industrial fire that took it out of action for a number of weeks.
A quick additional look at activity Tue 28th Sept 2021 for Victoria Big Battery – as seen in ez2view with the benefit of ‘Next Day Public’ data.
Some quick thoughts, spurred by Simon Hackett’s comment in relation to the fire at the Victorian Big Battery
Monday’s update on the fire at the new ‘Victoria Big Battery’ – which seems to have mostly come under control by the afternoon.
A short update on Sunday 1st August 2021, about the continuing fire at the Victoria Big Battery.
It’s Saturday evening, and here’s a look at what additional data I can see, in relation to the fire (and any after-effects) with the Victorian Big Battery.
Following the (very brief) initial article early this afternoon, here’s some more of what we have been able to determine about today’s fire at the new Victoria Big Battery facility near Geelong VIC.
Here’s first data about Victoria’s Big Battery … which is on fire on Friday afternoon 30th July 2021 (literally!).
With UQ recently publishing a performance review of their 1.1MW battery project for the 2020 calendar year, Andrew Wilson posts some extracts from the full report, particularly focusing on the battery’s arbitrage function.
The University of Queensland’s project team that was involved with the installation and operations of their 1.1MW Tesla battery presented a webinar and exhaustive Q&A on the first results of the project.
Took 2-3 times longer than planned (as there were a few different interesting observations that came out) but here is our initial – and perhaps only! – review of what happened in South Australia on Thursday 19th December 2019 (i.e. yesterday).
Hornsdale Power Reserve a.k.a “World’s biggest battery” achieves new milestones – discharged at a rate of 100MW and charged continuously for nearly 3 hours.
It’s 1st December 2017 – the first day of summer, and also the promised delivery date for the “world’s largest battery”. In this updated post we look at how it’s been operating.
It’s Saturday 25th November 2017 and what is currently known as “the worlds biggest battery” has kicked into gear – charging for a couple hours this morning.
Some quick thoughts about Tesla’s promise to “fix South Australia’s power woes”. Which specific problem is Tesla promising to fix?