Solar and battery storage projects have pushed Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) connection pipeline up 43% in a year to 80.9GW, overtaking the grid's existing 77GW of capacity for the first time.
The South Australian government has selected four solar and wind proposals totalling almost 13GW in the Whyalla West release area, west of the steelmaking city.
Atmos Renewables has acquired 126MWp of operating solar PV capacity in Victoria and Queensland from BayWa r.e., along with a late-stage wind and battery storage project in New South Wales, Australia.
Acciona, GenusPlus and UGL Engineering have been selected to deliver Stage 1 of Clean Energy Link – East (CEL-East), a transmission project in Western Australia.