Victorian Energy Minister, Lily D’Ambrosio, today officially inaugurated Victoria’s first utility-scale Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at the AusNet Services Ballarat Terminal Station in Warrenheip, Ballarat. 

EnergyAustralia and Re.Group today announced the selection of potential technology and an engineering contractor for an Australian-first energy recovery project proposed for the Mt Piper power station in New South Wales.

The Yallourn power station’s maintenance workforce will swell by up to five times its usual strength for 10 weeks as the plant’s owner, EnergyAustralia, does planned major works, injecting some $40 million into the Latrobe Valley economy.