A transformer failure at the 850 MW Waratah Super Battery could trigger multimillion-dollar insurance claims and project delays, illustrating how a single unit outage can escalate at one of Australia’s largest battery projects.


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From ESS News

The major failure of a transformer at the Waratah Super Battery is still causing ripples across industries more than a week later, and ongoing questions about the exact causes remain, for now, unanswered.

The role of the New South Wales state government and Australian Energy Regulator in the procurement and delivery of the Waratah Super Battery may mean that investigations into the transformer failure are made public and provide useful and detailed information to dissect.

For now, the issue for owner Akaysha Energy remains fairly clear: one 350 MVA unit is assumed very badly impacted given the “catastrophic failure” mentioned by the company, while the second de-energized transformer requires inspection and remains, for now, an unknown.

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