Twenty-one renewable and storage projects have made it through to the short lists for $75 million in NSW Government grant funding for pre-investment studies and capital projects to develop dispatchable electricity from “affordable, reliable and clean energy” sources.
In the pre-investment funding stream, grants worth $7.1 million have been awarded to projects totalling 2,150MW of on-demand electricity, “with the potential to leverage almost $2 billion in private investment,” the government claims.
Recipients will participate in knowledge-sharing activities to help industry deploy new technologies and business models in NSW.
Pre-investment funding short-list
| Applicant company | Project title | Primary project technology | Dispatchable electricity capacity | Location (closest town) |
| Hydrostor Australia | Broken Hill Compressed Air Energy Storage | Compressed Air Energy Storage | 200 MW | Broken Hill |
| Renew Estate | Buronga Energy Park Battery | Battery | 250 MW | Mildura |
| Meridian Energy | Burrinjuck Hydro Energy Storage Project | Pumped Hydro | 50 MW | Yass |
| Solar Analytics Pty Ltd | Consumer-led Distributed Energy project | Virtual Power Plant | 20 MW | Various locations |
| Progressive Renewable Developments | Deepwater Solar and Battery Storage | Battery | 20 MW | Deepwater |
| Walcha Energy | Dungowan Dam Pumped Hydro | Pumped Hydro | 500 MW | Tamworth |
| UPC/AC Renewables Australia | New England Pumped Hydro | Pumped Hydro | 400 MW | Armidale |
| OMPS Pty Ltd (with Alinta Energy) | Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage | Pumped Hydro | 600 MW | Armidale |
| Walcha Energy | Uralla Renewable Energy Hub Battery | Battery | 100 MW | Armidale |
| Firm Power | Western Sydney Smart Battery | Battery | 10 MW | Sydney |
Twenty-one capital projects have been shortlisted, with total capacity of more than 700MW of on-demand electricity across pumped hydro, gas, biogas, solar thermal, virtual power plants and batteries.
The successful recipients will be announced in the first half of 2020.
Capital projects funding short-list
| Applicant company | Project title | Primary project technology | Dispatchable electricity capacity | Location (closest town) |
| Meridian Energy Australia | Hume Hydro power station battery energy storage system | Battery | 20 MW | Lake Hume Village |
| Teys Australia | Wagga Low Emissions Energy Hub | Biogas | 8 MW | Bomen |
| Flow Power | Corporate Virtual Power Plant | Virtual Power Plant | 20 MW | Various locations |
| AGL Energy Limited | Broken Hill Battery | Battery | 50 MW | Broken Hill |
| Smart Renewables | Southern NSW commercial and residential virtual power plant | Virtual Power Plant | 5 MW | Batemans Bay |
| sonnen Australia | Regional NSW virtual power plant | Virtual Power Plant | 27.6 MW | Various locations |
| RES Australia | Newcastle Battery Energy Storage System | Battery | 40 MW | Newcastle |
| Maoneng Australia | Sunraysia Emporium | Battery | At least 50 MW | Balranald |
| TransGrid | NSW Grid Battery | Battery | 50 MW | Western Sydney |
| Reef Australia | Bio-ethanol gas for industrial user at Coleambally | Biogas | 5 MW | Coleambally |
| Hivve Technology | Sustainable Schools | Virtual Power Plant | 5 MW | Various locations |
| Origin Energy | Expansion of Shoalhaven Pumped Hydro | Pumped Hydro | 235 MW | Kangaroo Valley |
| Edify Energy | Darlington Point Energy Storage System | Battery | 25 MW | Darlington Point |
| RayGen Resources | RayGen’s Solar Power Plant | Solar Concentrated Photovoltaic with Integrated Electro-Thermal Storage | 5 MW | – |
| Endeavour Energy | Western Sydney renewable energy and load management | Virtual Power Plant | 10 MW | Various locations |
| Goldwind Australia | Hybrid Project | Gas | 72 MW | – |
| CWP Renewables | The Sapphire Battery Farm | Battery | 30 MW | Glen Innes |
| Not disclosed | Riverina Region battery energy storage system | Battery | 10 MW | – |
| Bomen Solar Farm Pty Ltd | Bomen Solar Farm Battery Energy Storage System | Lithium-ion battery | 10.3 MW | Wagga Wagga |
| UPC Renewables Australia | New England battery | Battery | 25 MW | Uralla |
| Centennial Newstan | Newstan Colliery pumped hydro storage | Pumped Hydro | 8.5 MW | Fassifern |