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Akaysha’s 2hr Battery Flies Through Approvals
Akaysha Energy, the battery storage developer backed by global funds management giant BlackRock, has flown through the Northern Midlands planning process to get its two hour battery in Palmerston, Tasmania, approved in just four months.
It raced through a similar process in Victoria, in just six months, for the four-hour “Elaine” big battery.
Melbourne-based consultancy Cogency said in a LinkedIn post that neither project received any objections and slated the swift approvals down to robust design, detailed technical work and comprehensive stakeholder engagement.
What helped push the application, lodged in August, through quickly was multiple rounds of community engagement before and during the planning process with Poatina residents to ensure the project had their support, says Akaysha Energy development and delivery managing director Tony Fullelove.
The ‘Palmerston’ battery is a 100MW/200MWh BESS that will be built next to the Palmerston substation, near the town of Poatina which is about 50 kilometres south of Launceston in the central lakes district of the island.
It was approved by the council in November last year and in its application documents, used containerised Tesla Megapack units with a capacity of 3MWh per unit as an example of what the battery might look like.
Read the full story here: https://reneweconomy.com.au/akayshas-2hr-tasmania-battery-flies-through-approvals-in-months/.