Construction has started on a two-hour big battery that is being coupled with an existing solar farm and will share its connection to the grid in northern Victoria.
The Australian arm of Danish developer European Energy said on Friday that its team has started building the 80 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery at Mokoan Solar Farm and was hoping to have it “up and running” by the middle of 2027.
“Batteries are crucial for EE and the whole industry. They will truly unlock the full potential of wind and solar and provide more renewable energy when it’s needed most,” the managing director of European Energy Australia, Catriona McLeod, said on LinkedIn.
“We’ll be doing a lot in this space in the back end of 2026 and into 2027 so there are plenty more announcements to come.”
The Mokoan battery energy storage system (BESS) will be AC-coupled to the operational 58 MW solar farm – meaning it will share the one connection to the grid and operate as one asset.
