Lyon Group announces $1b battery and solar farm for South Australia\'s Riverland

At the end of this year, a $1 billion battery and solar farm will be built at Morgan in South Australia\'s riverbank, which supporters call the \"world\'s largest\" project.
Lyon Group has proposed a smaller solar farm and battery storage facility called Kingfisher in the north of the state.
Lyon partner David Green said the project\'s 100 equity financing will start construction in a few months, employing 270 workers.
Riverland Solar storage 330-
Megawatt Solar and 100-
The megawatt battery storage system will be the largest solar power plant in Australia.
4 million solar panels will also include 1.
\"1 million batteries,\" he said.
The land has been protected and the grid connection is very advanced, Mr. Green said.
The 120 MW Kingfisher project in Lyon will begin in next September. \"If the 4.
\"The 7 million solar panels of Riverland and Kingfisher are placed from start to finish and they will arrive in Brisbane and Brisbane from Adelaide and then all the way to Melbourne,\" Mr Green said . \".
Russell Peate, chief executive of the Murray Council, said that such an announcement in this \"employment era\" was \"brilliant\" news for the region.
\"We need to work with developers on accommodation, but it will also have an impact on school enrolment, national fire service, ambulance volunteers --
This is great for that area.
\"The Lyon Group has indicated that it intends to bid for the SA government tender to build a 100-Megawatt output.
The tender arrangement will give the government the right to use battery storage at peak demand, but will allow project owners to sell energy and stability to the market at other times.
Friday will end a process of expressing interest.
Other companies such as Carnegie, Zen Energy and Tesla have said they may be interested in bidding.
Green said that the results of the tender will not determine whether the project in Lyon is completed, however, from the balance between optimizing grid security and acquiring transaction revenue, this will affect the final storage configuration.
\"The South Australian government is in big-
\"The combination of large-scale battery storage with reduced technical costs and international financial benefits provides a timely solution to some of the challenges of the state\'s power system,\" he said . \".
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