{"id":825604,"date":"2026-07-26T20:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825604\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:53:25","slug":"new-solar-battery-hybrid-promising-four-hours-of-storage-near-canberra-seeks-federal-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825604\/","title":{"rendered":"New solar-battery hybrid promising four hours of storage near Canberra seeks federal green light"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local renewable energy arm of South Korean electronics giant Samsung is seeking a green light from the federal government for a new solar-battery hybrid project in southern New South Wales that would offer up to four hours of energy storage. <\/p>\n

Plans for the Boro Solar Farm this week joined the queue for environmental assessment under the federal EPBC Act, seeking to install up to 150 megawatt (MW) of solar and a 250 MW, 1,000 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery energy storage system about an hour east of Canberra.<\/p>\n

The site for the proposed project is roughly 40 km south of Goulburn and 200 km south-west of Sydney, in the local government areas of Goulburn Mulwaree Council and Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council in the South East and Tablelands Region of NSW. <\/p>\n

Developer Samsung C&T Renewable Energy Australia says the proposed project area covers around 420 hectares of land that has been extensively cleared and used for farming and agriculture practices, and notes a history of mining activity for gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solar Farm would involve the construction, operation and decommissioning of a solar farm and battery energy storage system (BESS) with a generating capacity of 400 megawatts (up to 150 megawatt solar farm and a 250 megawatts\/ 1000 megawatt hours storage BESS),\u201d the proposal says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solar farm would be inter-connected via a series of underground cables connecting the photovoltaic (PV) arrays to a central substation, which would then transform the electricity to 330 kilovolts for dispatch to an existing TransGrid 330kV overhead transmission line located to the south of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goulburn and the surrounding regions have a chequered history with renewable energy development. While Goulburn hosts Australia\u2019s first community solar and battery project, which officially launched in March<\/a> of this year, it has also given vent to a lot of community opposition solar and wind on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n

In 2022, local landowners\u00a0banded together to fight<\/a>\u00a0development of a 400MW solar farm and big battery near Goulburn even before the community consultation process had begun, claiming it was unsuitable for the \u201cagricultural nature of Gundary Plains.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lightsource bp-originated Gundary solar farm, was beset by complaints from a vocal opposition group called Stop Gundary Solar Farm, which was\u00a0supported by the leader of the federal opposition, Angus Taylor<\/a>, a local landowner, and Goulburn MP Wendy Tuckerman.<\/p>\n

More recently, the Merino solar farm and battery, a 450 MW \/ 1,800 MWh project being proposed by EDP Renewables Australia for in Tirannaville, south of Goulburn, has stirred similar levels of opposition, and was voted against by the Goulburn Mulwarre Council.<\/p>\n

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