Canada‘s largest battery storage farm just opened – and it’s Indigenous-led

Canada‘s largest battery storage farm just opened – and it’s Indigenous-led

This is not your average plot of southwestern Ontario farmland. In May, a 10-acre tract of land in Haldimand County officially turned into Canada’s largest grid-scale battery storage facility, and one of the largest in the world. Now, 278 lithium-ion battery units are drawing and storing surplus power from Ontario’s electricity grid, doubling the province’s energy storage capacity to 475 megawatts and providing a bolstered electrical backbone to…

Oneida Battery Project, Canada’s Biggest, Goes Online Ahead of

Canada’s biggest battery energy storage system went online ahead of schedule and under budget last week, on a patch of industrial land just a few kilometres from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. The 250-megawatt/1,000 megawatt-hour project in Haldimand County is co-owned by the Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation (SNGRDC), Northland Power, NRStor Inc...

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This article was published by The Energy Mix on May 12, 2025. By The Energy Mix staff The Oneida Energy Storage, Canada’s biggest battery energy storage system, went online ahead of schedule and under budget last week, on a patch of industrial land just a few kilometres from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. The 250-megawatt/1,000 megawatt-hour project in Haldimand County is co-owned by the Six Nations of the Grand River Development…