Mallee Wind Farm Scoping Report submitted

Mallee Wind Farm is a proposed 1-gigawatt (GW) wind and battery energy storage project in the Wentworth Shire of New South Wales on the traditional Mallee country land of the Paakantji (Barkandji), Latji Latji, Muthi Muthi, and Yitha Yitha people.

Mallee Wind Farm?is being developed by Spark Renewables, a leading developer and long-term owner of renewable energy projects.?

The project is proposed to be within the formally declared NSW South-West Renewable Energy Zone (REZ).?Sitting at the opposite end of the REZ to the proposed Dinawan Energy Hub (also being developed by Spark Renewables), Mallee Wind Farm would provide a unique opportunity to significantly strengthen and secure the transmission network within the REZ by leveraging the battery storage capabilities of each project.Once constructed, Mallee Wind Farm?would power up to 450,000 Australian homes each year, offsetting the emission of more than 2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Spark Renewables has commissioned consultants to undertake a series of preliminary environmental assessments and prepare a Scoping Report for the?wind farm. The Scoping Report outlines the proposed project in more detail and identifies important issues that will require further assessment, consultation or technical studies.

The Scoping Report has now been submitted to the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) and is available via?this link.

Next, the DPE will issue its requirements, known as Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements (SEARs), within 28 days of receiving the Scoping Report. The SEARs will need to be addressed in a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will be prepared over this year.

The community will be consulted further during the EIS preparation and have the opportunity to make a formal submission when the EIS goes on public exhibition.?Part of the EIS will be a Social Impact Assessment, a survey in which all community and stakeholders are invited to participate to provide feedback about their concerns and perspectives about the project. The?Mallee Wind Farm Social Impact Assessment survey is available?here.

If you have any questions or would like to set up a?meeting, please contact us at?[email protected]?or leave a message at?1300 271 419.

Project overview

• Generation capacity up to 1,000 MW.
• 'On demand' battery energy.?
• Powering up to 450,000 homes per year.
• Equivalent to offsetting ~2?million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually or planting around 120,000 eucalyptus trees each year.
• Jobs and?training.

Find out more at www.malleewindfarm.com.