Philippines' ACEN adds battery storage to huge Australian solar farm

Ayala unit builds one of the country's biggest renewables projects

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Sheep swarm around a solar farm in the Australian state of New South Wales. © Getty Images

YUICHI SHIGA, Nikkei staff writer

MANILA -- Philippine power provider AC Energy (ACEN) has begun work on a battery system that will be linked to a solar farm in one of Australia's biggest renewable-energy projects.

ACEN, a listed arm of Philippine conglomerate Ayala, says the battery system will have a one-hour storage capacity of 50 megawatts.

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