Tesla has selected Australian coal towns to build battery services, repairs and renewal facilities for vehicles, home sizes, and power grid-scale battery products.
The US company’s remanufacturing facility in Collie, southwestern Western Australia (Washington), is one of the largest facilities in the country and can ultimately serve the Asia-Pacific region.
“We have one of the world’s largest independent power grids in the southwest. We have the largest grid-scale battery in Australia and the largest battery on the planet connected to that grid.” February 7 I said on the day.
“It makes sense that Tesla is here.”
The facility is being built at the Collie Battery site in Neoen.
Equipped with a 560 Tesla Mega Pack, it will become the largest grid-scale battery in Japan when completed.
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The Tesla Service facility is expected to be operational by 2026. Initially, Tesla Grid-Scale Megapack batteries and other Tesla products will be installed in Washington.
Once further development is complete, residential power wall batteries and electric vehicle charging devices will also be repaired at the site.
The area director of Tesla Energy Joseph Tadic said the facility will allow the company to repair and perform utility scale and residential battery maintenance locally.
“We provide prompt support to our local customers while reducing logistics costs and emissions,” he said.
Tesla Energy is a leading supplier of Australia’s household battery storage, and it was revealed in 2022 that it sold over 33,000 power wall batteries domestically.
Tesla also installed what was the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Hornsdale, South Australia in 2017, but in 2019 the battery increased its capacity from Neoen.
A memorandum of understanding was signed in December between Prime Minister Roger Cook and Tesla Motors Australia to develop the project.
Collie’s coal mines and power plants have powered WA for over 100 years and become the country’s economic engine room.
It is located about 200 kilometres south of Perth, with a massive pivot site with around 7,500 people and a state government-supported site away from the coal industry.
