Windlab has announced further delays on its energy park in north Queensland after its EPC contractor failed to secure a fully functioning connection agreement.
The Kennedy Energy Park, Australia’s first project on a major grid to combine wind, solar and battery technologies, has again been derailed due to complications in the connection process. The project was energized in August, but its commercial operation will now be delayed into 2020.
The EPC contractor on the project, a joint venture between Vestas Wind Systems and Quanta Services, has not been able to deliver a fully functioning generator performance standard (GPS) model and electrical plant meeting the network standards.
Construction of the Kennedy hub – combining 43 MW of wind, 15 MW of solar and a 2 MW/4 MWh Tesla battery – was completed last December.
The Kennedy Energy Park is jointly developed and owned by Windlab and Eurus Energy.
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