Battery storage · Australia
Victorian Big Battery
Owner Victorian Big Battery Pty Ltd
Operational300 MWData checked 10 November 2026
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Victorian Big Battery is a 300 MW battery storage site Victoria, Australia. Its status in the OpenElectricity facility data (Australia) is operational. The register holds one incident at this site, the latest in 2021.
Incidents on the register at this site
In July 2021, during initial testing and commissioning of the Victorian Big Battery, a large grid-scale lithium-ion battery energy storage facility at Moorabool, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia, operated and owned by Neoen with battery units manufactured...
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The site
- Technology
- Battery storage (Stored energy 470 MWh, Lithium-ion)
- Capacity
- 300 MW
- Capacity figure from
- OpenElectricity facility data (Australia)
- Status
- Operational (In service)
- Owner
- Victorian Big Battery Pty Ltd
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
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Questions
- Has Victorian Big Battery had a fire or other incident?
- Yes. The register holds one incident that names it: Fire in battery unit during commissioning at Victorian Big Battery, Moorabool (EIR-0012, 2021).
- What is the status of Victorian Big Battery?
- Operational, in the OpenElectricity facility data (Australia).
- Where is Victorian Big Battery?
- Victoria, Australia.
Source: OpenElectricity (formerly OpenNEM) facility data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The dataset. The register adds only the incidents and the counts.