NSW Govt Gives Go-ahead to 400 MW Solar-Battery Plant in Australia

• The Stubbo Solar Farm and Battery project will be integrated in the Central West-Orana Renewable Energy Zone, Australia.
• It will include 800,000 single-axis tracking solar modules and a battery energy storage system

UPC/AC Renewables Australia has revealed that the New South Wales government has given its approval to the growth plans for the 400-MW Stubbo Solar Farm and Battery project in the Orana area of the Australian state.

UPC \ AC Renewables is a joint venture of UPC Renewables Australia Pty Ltd and AC Energy, part of the Ayala Corp in the Philippines. The Stubbo project will integrate a 200-MWh battery storage space system and will certainly cover 1,250 hectares of gotten rid of grazing land within the Central West-Orana Renewable Energy Zone. It will certainly link to the National Electricity Market (NEM) using TransGrid's 330 kV Wellington to Wollar TransGrid transmission line, which transects the website.

It will certainly include regarding 800,000 single-axis tracking solar modules and a battery energy storage space system, which implies the project will certainly be able to send off energy when it is most needed throughout optimal hrs, while likewise providing important grid security services.

As soon as completed, the Stubbo Solar Farm is expected to every year produce more than 1 million MWh of solar energy, which would be enough to provide electricity to greater than 150,000 residences.

Killian Wentrup, the head of solar development at UPC \ AC Renewables Australia, claimed the project will now advance with its grid-connection application and the appointment of a primary EPC service provider.

" We intend to begin building by very early to mid-2022, based on finalisation of our last agreements and protecting money," Wentrup stated. "We wish to thank the regional community for its recurring comments, which assisted us make changes to the project proposition and to lower a few of the potential effects. We expect continuing that favorable relationship over many years to find."

The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment backed the project concluding that it would certainly aid expand the regional economic climate, develop jobs and sustain the state's energy shift to renewables, the main statement stated.

In the next phase, UPC \ AC Renewables will file for a grid link application and seek to designate a main EPC service provider.