I see that the Greens and others are falling over themselves about this. I'm sure they are happy to waive the standard requirements for permits, Environmental assessments, public consultation and the like because, after all its battery storage
. And they won't mind that the batteries are produced at enormous energy expense and uses materials produced by the wicked mining industry. And they won't mind that the proponent is a rich guy at the head of a multinational corporation. Greens just love rich people - like the greenie millionaire who gave them the biggest single political donation in the last Tas election.
Sure, just waive the whole thing through in 100 days. What could possibly go wrong?
Here in Tasmania we have had massive battery storage facilities for over 50 years. We call them hydro dams. Store water and hold it as potential energy and release that energy on demand when its needed. It worked well until the Carbon Tax and its profit generating capacity came along and we damn near ran out of water and had to turn to diesel generators to keep the lights on, when suddenly we also couldn't draw on Victoria's coal generated power.
But of course the 'hydro' type of battery storage, indeed this whole type of renewable energy is condemned by the Greens and here in Tas some are still fighting for at least one of the large hydro impoundments to be emptied.