Mullewa Renewable Microgrid – 1MW Solar, 1.2MW Wind, 3MWh battery

Sunrise were awarded grant funding to investigate the feasibility of establishing a renewable Microgrid in the fringe-of-grid town of Mullewa that would improve power reliability and amenity for Mullewa residents and could be applied as a repeatable model to other fringe-of-grid towns suffering from poor reliability.

The output from the study was the proposed development of a renewable microgrid that consisted of a 1MW solar farm, two 600kW wind turbines, a 3MWh battery and a 600kW back-up diesel generator all connected to the Mullewa distribution network via automated protection and controls that would enable it to automatically island from the main grid on loss of grid power, forming a self-sustaining microgrid.

The development application for the project has been approved and a connection application is currently lodged with Western Power for the generating assets.

Read the Mullewa Renewable Microgrid Feasibility Study Report PDF

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