A massive 10-hour battery has just landed in the federal green queue, but is facing a second review in its home state after being bombarded by objections.
Eku Energy’s Griffth battery, a 100 megawatt (MW), 1000 megawatt-hour (MWh) project proposal, will sit in amongst one already operating solar farm and another under development, just outside the New South Wales (NSW) town of Griffith.
In its original 800 MWh form, it was one of the first eight-hour batteries to win an underwriting agreement through the NSW government’s Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap in 2023. The first of those eight-hour batteries, at Limondale, is now up and running.
The NSW planning application is for 10-hours of storage, possibly to build in added redundancy, or more flexibility, and it turns out that some people who live in Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria and hundreds of kilometres away in other parts of NSW are annoyed.
The project attracted 74 objections, of which just one was truly local, a man who lives 650m down the road from the battery and solar projects developments and was worried about road use, and noise and air quality.
