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Largest battery in Australia to be built at ageing NSW coal-fired power plant
An energy provider’s plan to build Australia’s largest battery is the latest development in a quickly transitioning energy market.
Origin Energy has unveiled plans to build a giant 700-megawatt capacity battery at its coal-fired power plant in Eraring, south of Newcastle, in the New South Wales Hunter region.
If the plan goes ahead, the battery would be more than four times larger than the 150-megawatt Tesla battery in South Australia.
Origin’s executive general manager Greg Jarvis said the battery would support Origin’s transition…
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