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Since its inception in 2018, Tetris Energy has steadily grown in ambition and scope to now have almost 4.2 GW under development with a particular focus on wind farms in NSW, Queensland, SA and Victoria.

Under the guidance of founding director Frank Boland (pictured below), Tetris Energy started by developing and selling mid-scale solar farm projects including the 5 MW (Stage 1) + 30 MW (Stage 2) Mannum Solar Farm in SA, and the 10 MW Manton Dam and Batchelor Solar Farms in the NT, which are now all successfully operational.

Then followed a bunch of smaller, sub-5 MW solar farms such as Streaky Bay, Coonalpyn, Woods Point and Padthaway in SA, and Faraday in Vic which were also sold and constructed.

Tetris’ strategy has evolved toward larger capacity, integrated wind developments supported by battery energy storage systems across the NEM.

As pointed out by Boland, “Wind projects naturally tend to be larger, and the size of each project is optimised to available grid capacity”. 

One example of these larger capacity projects is Puzzle Range Wind Farm, to be located near Fawcett in the Murrindindi and Mansfield Shire areas of north-east Victoria. The 300-350 MW wind farm will be supported by 30-50 MW battery energy storage on-site, and is anticipated to connect to the nearby, existing 330kV Ausnet transmission network.

Tetris has several other wind projects in development across New South Wales, Victoria, SA and Queensland.

In the Central Ranges of New South Wales, the company is planning the 500 MW Ben Bullen Wind Farm, for which the Secretary’s Environment Assessment Requirements (SEARs) were recently received from the NSW planning authority.

Tetris plans to submit this month a scoping report for the 200 MW Mount Lambie Wind Farm, also in the NSW Central Ranges, with an associated 600 MWh BESS.

In southern NSW Tetris is developing the Yambla Range Wind Farm, situated close to Gerogery, which will have capacities of 200 MW wind and 600 MWh BESS.

In Queensland, Tetris is in the mid stage of developing renewable projects near Proserpine including the 120 MW Mt Challenger Wind Farm, the Rangemore Project which will consist of 187 MW of wind, and the 50 MW Kelsey Creek Solar Farm.

Tetris has a pipeline of other renewable energy generation and storage projects across the NEM, with full details in our project database.

Tetris is also excited about a transmission project it is developing, Energy Track, which involves upgrading redundant rail signal towers into modern transmission infrastructure along the Melbourne-Albury rail corridor. This would open up renewable precincts near Seymour and the Tetris Energy proposed Lambing Gully wind farm.

“Energy Track could help meet load growth in the Hume Corridor and support the diversification of wind energy generation in Victoria, which is mostly in the western part of the state today. And there is only one landholder, VicTrack, which reduces the need for additional transmission infrastructure on private land,” Boland said.