tesla power for glen innes - battery energy storage system
Vector's Tesla battery storage system is already open in glennes, a suburb of Auckland, which the utility says is a radical change to its power network.
Energy Minister Simon Bridge officially opened the renovated Glen Inness substation today, the first Tesla Powerpack battery storage system in the Asia-Pacific region to be integrated into the public grid.
The storage capacity of the battery is 1 MW-2. 3MWh -
It is equivalent to providing nearly two and a half hours of electricity to 450 families.
The battery allows the vector to continue to supply the power and to delay regular upgrades to the substation.
"This move represents a fundamental shift in vector managing its power network and responding to the development needs of innovative infrastructure to support growing communities," the company said . ".
Simon Mackenzie, chief executive of the company, said the battery storage system helped reduce peak demand, extend the life of the substation, delay capital expenditures and provide supplementary power to the gleninness region.
"By Measuring trends such as household energy consumption, the impact of housing filling and the absorption of new energy systems, he said:" We can target growth areas and delay or avoid the significant investment needed for new substations. ".
"When connection or consumption growth requires a traditional network upgrade, we can move the battery to the rest of the network where demand for power grows," he said . ".
Technologies such as batteries enable Vector to better manage the $2 billion risk that will require investment in the Auckland network over the next decade.
Tesla is working with Vector to integrate Powerpack solutions for customers in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
It has set up a huge battery production plant in California.