Project
200 MWh Tronox Project
MGA Thermal has commenced a Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study for a 200 megawatt-hour electro‑thermal energy storage (ETES) project at Tronox, the global chemicals and mining company. The project - Australia’s largest industrial‑scale thermal storage initiative - is being developed in Kwinana, WA by Australian company Knode, with GHD as engineering partner.
Co‑funded by a $2.9 million agreement with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), the FEED study builds on a Pre‑Feasibility Study completed in August 2025, which confirmed that MGA Thermal’s ETES technology can achieve price parity with traditional fossil‑fuel systems.
Targeting commercial operation in 2028, the project will deliver approximately 20 tonnes per hour of renewable steam to Tronox’s Kwinana facility under a Heat-as-a-Service agreement. The initial deployment is expected to avoid 38,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually, with the potential to fully eliminate fossil‑fuel use if deployed at scale.
Commercial Model:
Heat-as-a-Service
Location:
Australia, Kwinana WA
Details
Project Specifications
Location
Australia, Kwinana WA
Collaborators
Knode, Tronox, GHD
Commercial Model
Heat-as-a-Service
Capacity
Charging: 30MWe | Discharge:15MWth | Storage: 200MWhth
Output Temperature
365oC and 37 bar
Storage Duration
13 hours
Sector
Chemicals
Status
In Development
Impact
Energy output: 70,000 MWh per annum at one cycle per day
Emissions savings: ≈ 38,000t CO₂ avoided annually
~10% CO2-e tonnes/per annum reduced
“Progressing to the FEED stage is incredibly important, not just for our project with MGA Thermal, but for the fact that it demonstrates a viable way to electrify heavy industry. Keeping industries like mineral processing, refining, and materials manufacturing in Western Australia is going to be highly dependent on being able to decarbonise economically.”
