NSW provides preparing nod to Akaysha's Waratah Super Battery project

• The New South Wales federal government today stated it has awarded intending authorization for the 909 MW/1,915 MWh Waratah Super Battery project proposed by BlackRock Real Assets' Akaysha Energy.

The permit allows the building and construction and procedure of the AUD-1-billion (USD 683m/EUR 643m) complex intended to provide storage space capacity of a minimum of 700 MW/1,400 MWh as well as make certain that Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong have access to even more energy from existing generators.

The Waratah Super Battery will be set up at the former Lake Munmorah coal-fired power complex in New South Wales Central Coast region, 100 km north of Sydney. It is because of begin industrial operations by mid-2025, before the prepared closure of Origin Energy's Eraring coal-fired power plant.

US energy storage space business Powin LLC will deliver 2,592 of its Centipede energy segments as well as 288 power conversion units for the project.

Akaysha won a state federal government tender to create as well as construct the massive battery in October 2022.