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Construction of Australia’s largest transmission project critical to the country’s clean energy future has reached a major milestone with the first of 1,500 steel towers rising from the ground in the Far West of NSW.

Australia’s largest electricity project, EnergyConnect, has taken another step forward with the testing underway on new transformers which will be installed as part of the project.

Construction of Australia’s largest transmission project is progressing well, with the first group of workers moving into a 30ha purpose-built camp and the pouring of the first concrete foundations for steel towers at Buronga, near Mildura.

Transgrid has welcomed the NSW Government’s announcement of a third renewable energy zone (REZ), which will enable the connection of new and existing renewable generation to the grid in the state’s south-west, via the critical transmission project EnergyConnect.

The first big electrical kit for the nation’s largest transmission project has arrived in Australia by ship as construction of the $1.8 billion EnergyConnect interconnector powers ahead.

Transgrid has welcomed the NSW Government’s final environmental approval for the eastern section of the nation’s biggest transmission project EnergyConnect, as works in the western section accelerate.