Transformer arrival to help deliver $1.8 B EnergyConnect project
Australia, Wollongong: Transformers delivered to Port Kembla will be instrumental in delivering Transgrid’s $1.8 B EnergyConnect interconnector.
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Australia, Wollongong: Transformers delivered to Port Kembla will be instrumental in delivering Transgrid’s $1.8 B EnergyConnect interconnector.
The main tanks of the transformers, weighing more than 118 T each, as well as components and accessories in 52 crates, were unloaded at Port Kembla after being shipped from China.
The transformers will be transported by heavy road transport vehicles to the project construction site in Buronga, near Mildura, for construction of the 700 km long project from Wagga Wagga to the South Australian border.
Transgrid’s Manager of Major Projects, Gordon Taylor, said EnergyConnect was a once in a generation project and was Transgrid’s largest ever undertaking.
“We are building the energy superhighway and EnergyConnect – the nation’s biggest electricity transmission project – is also the largest ever undertaken by Transgrid,” Mr Taylor said. Our construction partner SecureEnergy JV started work on the 135 km western section of the interconnector in June with a 30 ha worker accommodation camp and laydown with office facilities at Buronga, near Mildura, with concrete foundations now being poured for the first of 1,500 steel towers. The arrival of this first big electrical kit adds even more momentum to this once-in-a-generation project which will enable sharing of energy between NSW, Victoria and South Australia for the first time. It means we are still on target for first power from EnergyConnect by the second half of 2024.”
Taylor said the transformers are a key part of the synchronous condensers which will provide reactive power compensation on the 330 kV system.
Source: Utility Magazine
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