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TagEnergy’s absorption of ACE Power will create one of Australia’s biggest renewable energy developers by capacity and project numbers.

ACE Power had been busy, particularly over the last few months, building its project portfolio across the country under its own name and in partnerships. Following the acquisition, combined with its existing projects, TagEnergy now is lead-developer of 31 projects in our database with a combined total capacity of just over 14 GW (see chart below).

Source: AltEnergy Renewables Radar

The ranking below is for TagEnergy-only projects, but when you add in its JV projects TagEnergy moves up to the second largest developer in Australia by capacity.

Source: AltEnergy Renewables Radar

These figures include two new projects we this week added to our database. However one of these, the Limerick Wind Farm in NSW, is at an early stage of development and so doesn’t have a capacity assigned to it.

The project is located on privately owned land near Limerick, approximately 10km north of Crookwell and 5km east of Binda, in the Upper Lachlan Shire.

An overhead transmission line will connect an onsite sub-station to the existing 500kV Bannaby to Mt Piper transmission line.

Wind monitoring and community engagement are in progress.

Pending approvals, construction of the project will take approximately 24-36 months and is anticipated to start in 2029.

The Limerick Wind Farm is being developed by Stromlo Energy, and will be constructed, owned and operated by TagEnergy.

The other project added to the AltEnergy database was ACE Power-developed Morwell BESS, which will be located on private land in the Latrobe Valley near Morwell in south-eastern Victoria.

The 620 MW / 2480 MWh BESS project will connect to into the nearby 500kV Hazelwood Terminal Station.

Design works and technical studies are ongoing to support the development approval application, which is expected to be lodged this year.

The project will create around 150 jobs during construction, with 5-7 operational roles required.

Morwell BESS is on the site of ARP Australian Solar’s proposed Morwell Solar Farm, which was classified as discontinued by AEMO in July last year.

The project was planned to consist of 230,000 solar panels on 157 hectares of land used for grazing, as well as 30 MW of battery storage in stage 2. A planning permit for the solar farm was granted by state government in early 2022.