Battery storage developer Zebre is pushing ahead with planning approvals for a Queensland battery project, even though its one operational battery has been idle since July following the collapse of its former joint venture partner.
Zebre has referred to the federal EPBC the 180 megawatt (MW), 360 megawatt-hour (MWh) Noblevale battery in the old Swanbank coal mine and power station site in Ipswich, southern Queensland.
Zebre was a joint venture between Taiwan company HD Renewables and Australia’s Zen Energy, but Zen’s interest was sold to investors – believed to be note holders – just before it entered voluntary administration at the start of July.
Those dramatic events have caused Zebre’s already commissioned Templers battery in South Australia to sit idle as it is suspended from trading by the market operator, but it has not stopped the company from progressing its other development projects.
Cracking on in Queensland
