Canada’s biggest battery powers up – National Observer

November 26th 2024

Ontario will switch on the country’s biggest energy storage facility next summer, taking a key step in transforming an aging electricity network aiming to be net-zero by 2035 — and one that could spark the grid revolution the province needs.

Drive through the small southern Ontario town of Jarvis and you’ll pass by a gas station, a microbrewery, a few local restaurants and shops — and as you head out into the countryside, Canada’s biggest battery.

When its rows of stacked Tesla-made batteries are switched on next summer, the $800 million Oneida energy storage plant will be able to hold up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power a city of around 200,000 people.

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