Reuters
Neoen SA has won approval for its big battery in South Australia to provide inertia service to stabilise the grid, a world first for battery energy storage in the push to replace fossil-fueled generators, the French firm said on Wednesday. Neoen's 150-megawatt Hornsdale Power Reserve uses Tesla Inc's Megapack battery system and will now use Tesla's Virtual Machine Mode to deliver inertia services, until now provided by coal-fired and gas-fired power plants with big turbines. Neoen Chairman Xavier Barbaro said extending the range of services the big battery could offer created "additional layers of value for existing battery storage investments".