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The Cook Labor Government is continuing to back solutions for providing cleaner, reliable and affordable power to regional Western Australia as it pilots a long-duration battery in Kununurra.
The battery - which relies on vanadium flow technology and has a 78-kilowatt capacity and 220 kilowatt hours of storage - is well suited to Kimberley conditions, where energy storage must be temperature resilient and capable of delivering energy over a long period of time.
The pilot will also provide Horizon Power with lessons on how to integrate long-duration energy storage into its network, microgrids, and other off-grid power systems.
Battery storage already plays a critical role in WA's energy mix, with large-scale batteries in Kwinana and Collie absorbing excess rooftop solar power during the day and redistributing it at night when demand for energy is greater.
VSUN Energy, a subsidiary of Australian Vanadium, has supplied the vanadium flow battery, and will collaborate with Horizon Power on system support testing over the next 12 months.
