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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.

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.

Better known for the iconic Deni Ute Muster, the Edward River town of Deniliquin has become a lynchpin for delivering affordable, renewable energy in New South Wales by becoming the distribution and storage hub for Australia’s largest transmission project.

More affordable, sustainable and reliable power across three states is a step closer with consumers utilising electricity for the first time from the nation-critical EnergyConnect project.

Workers from across Australia have moved into a new purpose-built accommodation facility near Hay as work on the EnergyConnect project powers ahead in the Riverina.

Regional communities across the construction footprint of Australia’s largest transmission project have secured an economic boom, with more than $200 million invested to date with local businesses, supporting jobs and commercial growth.