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New South Wales approves BESS capacity expansion at Australia’s largest hybrid solar farm

The government of New South Wales has approved plans to increase the maximum sizing of a battery storage system at what could be Australia’s largest project of its type.

New England Solar is a large-scale solar PV power plant project in the southeastern Australian state, on which construction began in early 2021 across land near the town of Uralla in the New England Tableland plateau.

Total generation capacity is planned to reach 720MWac (936MWdc), with the project being built in two phases – the first 400MWac (521MWdc) phase came online in March this year, with the rest to follow.

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