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"An Australian renewable energy and storage developer has unveiled plans to
build a major new transmission line in Victoria that would do away with
traditional poles and wires – and the social licence issues that come with them
– by installing an underground cable along a major freeway.
The Syncline Community Cable, named for its developer Syncline Energy, proposes
to bury a 265 km high-voltage, direct current (HVDC) link running from the
Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub (MREH) battery to the Mallee region in the
Victoria’s North.
Syncline says the subterranean cable would be capable of moving more than 25%
of Victoria’s electricity and would deliver the essential north-south link that
is needed in Victoria to support a major scale-up in renewables.
This would include opening up the renewable energy zone in Victoria’s
north-west, identified late last year by VicGrid as where the majority of
Victoria’s future energy generation will likely be built.
Phil Galloway, Syncline Energy managing director, says the company has been
working up the project for the past three years, which it sees as a unique
opportunity to develop a transmission line with minimal impact on communities
and minimal impact on the environment.
“I’ve got two focuses in this project,” Galloway tells Renew Economy. “One is
getting power prices down, and the second is doing it in a way that doesn’t
break communities, and particularly rural communities.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
