Renewable Energy Partners has unveiled its second giga-scale renewable energy project proposal this week, with the website launch of the approximately 1,000 megawatt (MW) Lake Dalrymple wind farm in Queensland.
The 140 turbine project is on the other side of the main transmission line heading up the coast from Brisbane to the industrial hubs of Gladstone and Townsville and on up to Cairns. It’s about 60km west of Collinsville, a town famous for its historic underground coal mine.
On Monday, Renewable Energy Partners (REP) unveiled the new-look Bogunda Energy Hub, which has been scaled back from a proposal for 5 gigawatt of (GW) wind to a hybrid of 850 MW wind, 500 MW solar and 500 MW, four-hour battery next to the CopperString transmission project, south-east of Hughenden.
Queensland has become notoriously uncertain as a home for wind projects, after the calling of several projects for further scrutiny by planning minister Jarrod Bleijie, who has cancelled the planning permit of one and changed the law to kill off another.
Councils and developers are still struggling to come to terms with new rules put in place last year, which require a signed community benefits agreement with councils and a social impact assessment before development applications are lodged.
