UK-based Elgin Energy as won approval for its 3rd renewable resource task in the last half year and is develops out its Australian advancement portfolio. The business revealed that the Elaine solar farm near the popular Meredith music celebration website in main Victoria will host a 150 megawatt (MW) solar task and a 250 MWh battery and was authorized by the state on May 3. The task will be ended up by August 2025, according to Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) expectations. The job covers 2 websites, the 65 hectare ‘Peters’ and the 158 hectare ‘Windy’, with 60,636 PV modules to be set up with strategies to enable sheep grazing beneath. Elgin will construct a substation on the western Peters half of the job to link to the neighbouring Elaine substation. The brand-new solar job remains in a hot place for renewables jobs. About 10k to the north is where half of the 288 MW Lal wind farm is being constructed– the other half is instantly to the south of Elgin’s job. A couple of kilometres to the south is the existing 84 MW Elaine wind farm and Akaysha Energy’s authorized 311MW, 4 hour/1244 MWh battery at the Elaine substation. A sheaf of jobs underway For Elgin, now bulk owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners after a buy-in revealed in April, Elaine is simply the most recent in a string of effective applications throughout the eastern coast. In February, it won Victorian approval for the 60 MW Shady Creek solar farm and 2 hour (120 MWh) battery in Gippsland in Victoria. Simply a fortnight previously the New South Wales (NSW) federal government authorized the same-sized Glanmire solar task which is East of Bathurst and within the brand-new Central West Orana renewable resource zone. The task is going on after the designers consented to extend the set-backs from its limits, and maintain the website for existing and future farming activities, consisting of sheep grazing, following 131 neighborhood objections. The business states it now has 4 gigawatts of renewables tasks under advancement in NSW Queensland and Victoria.
UK designer wins approval for 3rd solar and battery task in Australia this year – RenewEconomy
