The United Kingdom (UK)-headquartered clean energy developer Elgin Energy’s proposed 330 MWp Barwon Solar Farm has received development approval (DA), fast tracked by the Victorian Minister for Planning.
Once operational the solar farm will have the capacity to provide energy for almost 140,000 homes annually and the battery energy storage system (BESS) will meet evening peak demand needs for more than 86,000 homes.
The proposed 250 MW / 500 MWh BESS and solar farm have been backed by the federal government’s Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) Tender 1 – National Electricity Market (NEM) generation, announced in December 2024.
Image: Elgin Energy
Victorian Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny said fast tracking renewable energy projects like Barwon means cheaper and cleaner power can be delivered to Victorians sooner.
Victoria aims to achieve 95% renewable energy by 2035.
Located 49 kilometres southwest of Melbourne and approximately 30 kilometres northeast of Geelong the project is Elgin’s largest to secure both a DA and grid 5.4.3a letter from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), which signifying AEMO’s approval of negotiated access standards for the proposed connection.
Elgin, majority owned by Danish energy giant Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), is a fully integrated, utility-scale solar+ storage platform, bringing projects from origination through development to energisation, with a 15 GW+ pipeline spanning solar, co-located and storage projects across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Australia.
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.