Riverland Solar Storage

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Riverland Solar Storage
Riverland Solar Storage
CountryAustralia
Locationnortheast of Morgan, South Australia
Coordinates 34°00′S139°48′E / 34.0°S 139.8°E / -34.0; 139.8 Coordinates: 34°00′S139°48′E / 34.0°S 139.8°E / -34.0; 139.8
StatusCancelled
Decommission dateJanuary 2020
Construction costA$700 million
Solar farm
Type Flat-panel PV
Collectors 3.4 million
Site area600 hectares (1,500 acres)
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 330 MW
Storage capacity 400MWh
External links
Website https://www.lyoninfrastructure.com.au/projects/riverland-battery-power-plant/
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Riverland Solar Storage was a proposed photo-voltaic solar power station planned to be built near Morgan in South Australia.

The project was announced in March 2017 by Lyon Group at a press conference which included Jay Weatherill, the premier of South Australia. Construction was expected to start within months and would employ 270 people during construction. It was proposed to generate up to 330MW of electricity [1] from 3.4 million solar panels. It was also announced that it would have 1.1 million batteries providing 100 MW / 400MWh of electricity storage. [2] It received development approval on 29 November 2017. [3] The developer said it expected it to begin operations in late 2018. [4] However only a month later, another press release announced that the project was on track to commence construction in early 2019. [5]

A delay arose in late 2017 when the intended supplier of solar modules, First Solar sued Lyon Group for an unpaid loan. At the time, Lyon was attempting to sell several of its development projects, including Riverland Solar Storage. [6] Lyon continued to prepare development of Riverland and two sister projects, and announced partners JERA (a joint venture of Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power) and Fluence (a joint venture of Siemens and AES Corporation) for the battery storage in May 2018. [7] Administrators were appointed to three companies in the Lyon Group in May 2019. In October 2019, Lyon announced that it had reached an arrangement with China Huadian Corporation to partner in developing projects in Australia and Asia. [8]

Eventually, the developer companies were liquidated and the liquidators referred the directors to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) for further investigation. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "New Developments". Australian Energy Market Operator. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ↑ Harmsen, Nick (30 March 2017). "Lyon Group announces $1b battery and solar farm for South Australia's Riverland" . Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Gilligan, Sara (1 December 2017). "Morgan to see the light". Murray Pioneer . Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Lyon Group's Riverland Solar Storage receives development approval" (Press release). Lyon Group. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Lyon Group launches innovative new offtake product, confirms full slate of development approvals and first connection agreement" (Press release). Lyon Group. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  6. ↑ Parkinson, Giles (28 November 2017). "First Solar takes Lyon to court, as solar + storage assets put to market". Renew Economy . Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  7. ↑ Parkinson, Giles (29 May 2018). "Lyon teams with Fluence, JERA to pursue big solar and battery storage". Renew Economy . Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  8. ↑ "Australia's Lyon Group and China Huadian sign agreement to bring stable renewable energy to Asia" (Press release). Lyon Group. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  9. ↑ Parkinson, Giles (30 January 2020). "Lyon creditors may get nothing, liquidators to refer directors to ASIC". Renew Economy . Retrieved 13 December 2021.


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