Concrete slab awaits 444 Tesla Megapacks at Melbourne’s giant battery project

The concrete is poured and ready for the delivery of the 444 Tesla Megapack modules that will make up one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia, at the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub in Victoria.

Victorian energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio posted an update on the progress on the huge battery that that is being developed by Equis and co-funded by the newly recreated State Electricity Commission, or SEC.

“Construction continues on the SEC’s first project, the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub. Currently getting ready for the arrival of 444 Tesla Megapacks, this will be one of the biggest batteries in the world,” D’Ambrosio wrote on X.

Equis and the SEC in December announced a funding deal for the MREH battery project at Melton, on the western outskirts of Melbourne, that will total 600MW and 1600 MWh lithium ion battery.

The project will be made up of three different 200MW components, two of them with two hours of storage and one with fours of storage duration.

A further stage of development, which plans to tap into another three 200MW connection points already approved for the site, could be even bigger because it may include 12-hours of storage delivered by so-called flow batteries.