New South Wales has granted planning permission for AGL to build its proposed 500 megawatt battery at the soon-to-close Liddell coal power plant, at an estimated cost of $763 million.
The permission, issued on March 8, will allow AGL to push ahead with its plans to convert the site from one that hosts one of the country’s most carbon-polluting baseload generators to one designed to release stored energy on demand in an increasingly renewables-dominated grid. NSW authorities said the battery was in the public interest, facilitating the state’s energy transition and creating up to 250 construction jobs.The battery, which will be installed in stages and will be one of the largest storage systems in Australia, will allow AGL to continue to use the site’s valuable transmission connections into the NSW high-voltage power grid,
Liddell is one of a fleet of batteries with a total output of 850MW that AGL hopes to install by 2024.AGL has already begun work on a battery at its Torrens Island power plant site in Adelaide, while other sites are under consideration, including in Victoria.contrasts sharply with Origin Energy, which is moving quickly to close its coal power generation.. The suitors said they would have rapidly shut AGL’s coal plants amid a rapid increase in renewable energy generation if they were successful.
Wonderful…… NSW will pay a terrible price for this……. Leftie incompetence
Why not go a step further and invest in building batteries here. Turn the 250 jobs into 2500 jobs.