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Australia’s largest energy transmission project has moved into overdrive with specialist teams making significant progress constructing the eastern alignment of EnergyConnect across the Riverina region.

Grid-forming batteries and synchronous condensers underpin an innovative portfolio of solutions designed to bolster the strength or ‘heartbeat’ of the NSW power system so that it can more rapidly accommodate renewable energy generation.

Transgrid has partnered with First Nations leaders in the Central West region to carry out a cultural burn on Wiradjuri Country to help regenerate a critically endangered ecological community on a significant site near Orange.

Transgrid has welcomed commencement of the NSW Government’s Strategic Benefit Payments Scheme for new major transmission projects, an important milestone acknowledging the vital role that landholders play in supporting the state’s renewable energy transition.

Australia is powering ahead with its transition to an affordable renewable energy future as the EnergyConnect project marks a major new milestone, with the completion of an upgrade to Transgrid’s 330kv substation at Wagga Wagga.

Community groups throughout the HumeLink project corridor have the opportunity to share in millions of dollars in funding for projects and initiatives that will bring lasting social, economic and environmental benefits to the region.