The facility will connect to the National Electricity Market (NEM) via a new underground transmission cable running to the nearby Blackstone electrical substation.
The underground routing was selected to avoid impacts on native vegetation, habitat, and wildlife movement corridors, with the cable traversing an existing high-voltage overhead power line easement that is already devoid of native vegetation.
The BESS will be configured across three battery yards within a total disturbance footprint of 6.33 hectares. Infrastructure on site will include a substation, internal roads, a site office, a control building, a maintenance shed, underground wastewater and rainwater holding tanks, a stormwater detention basin, and koala-proof fencing.
Construction activities will include earthworks to level the site and create bench surfaces for the battery equipment; civil works to prepare equipment foundations and cable trenches; equipment delivery and installation; electrical cabling, connection, commissioning, and energisation.
The site is currently used for cattle grazing on degraded eucalypt woodland and exotic pasture.
