Queensland shortlists 10 schemes for 400MW renewables, 100MW storage auction

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Where the 10 'Renewables 400' project sites would be located (Credit: Queensland state government)

A list of 10 proposed projects have been selected for ‘Renewables 400’, a state government push to deploy 400MW of renewable energy generation capacity with 100MW of energy storage in Queensland, Australia.

The tender is part of the AU$1.16 billion (US$0.81 billion) Powering Queensland Plan, which the government of state Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk rolled out to help stabilise electricity prices, reach 50% renewable energy by 2030 and diversify energy sources, drive economic growth and support local jobs.

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Expressions of interest have been rolling in since the ‘Renewables 400’ was launched in late 2017 by Palasczcuk to “huge interest”, as sister publication Energy-Storage.news reported at the time.

A reverse auction has been held to narrow down a field of more than 100 applications to just 10. From here, the shortlisted projects will submit bids to government-owned corporation CleanCo, which will manage the bidding process to “provide the next wave of large-scale renewable energy’,” the state government said.

The 10 selected projects include two standalone wind farms, five solar-plus-storage projects and three others which integrate more than one generation source.

See here to browse the full list of winners as published on sister title Energy-Storage.news

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