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Draft:New Zealand Battery Storage Industry

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The first grid-connected battery in the New Zealand Battery Storage industry commenced operation in March 2024. The battery is located at Huntly in the Waikato region on the upper North Island and is the first of its scale to commence operations in New Zealand[1] A second larger battery installation by Contact Energy will be started immediately. Tesla has been chosen as the battery provider to build a grid-scale 100-megawatt battery at Glenbrook, at a cost of up to NZD $163m USD $100m.[2]

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  1. ^ "New Zealand welcomes first big battery to national grid – pv magazine International". pv-magazine.com. 13 March 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
  2. ^ "Glenbrook to get big grid-scale battery as Contact teams up with Tesla". NZ Herald. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-19.