Akaysha Energy has officially commenced construction on its Elaine Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Victoria after securing $460 million in construction financing.
The battery project—Akaysha’s first in Victoria—is located 5km north west of Elaine, within the South West Victorian Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) and directly adjacent to the Elaine Terminal Station.
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Once completed, the Elaine BESS project will provide up to four hours of energy storage with a capacity of 300MW/1200MWh, integrating more renewable energy into the market and offering more reliable electricity supply to the NEM.
Akaysha has selected InEight Document as the centralised platform for managing project documentation across the Elaine BESS project.
Designed to support collaboration and transparency, the solution enables secure access to critical information, maintains version control, streamlines approvals, and ensures all stakeholders are working from the most current data.
Akaysha recently announced a landmark 15-year virtual toll agreement with Snowy Hydro for the Elaine BESS. With a contracted capacity of 220MW, it is the largest four-hour virtual toll agreement in Australia.
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Akaysha Energy is a market-leading BESS builder, owner, operator in Australia, with a pipeline of projects in the US, Germany and Japan.
