AirTrunk and European Energy strike agreement on $1.5b clean power push

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A huge solar storage project and a wind farm would be built near Newcastle in NSW under the accord unveiled by AirTrunk and a Danish renewables developer.

AirTrunk has unveiled a deal with a Danish-owned renewables group that could lead to 800 megawatts of new solar, wind and battery plants in NSW’s Hunter region, amid mounting pressure on data centre developers to bring online new clean generation to avoid straining household power bills.

The generation and storage plants envisaged under the alliance with European Energy Australia would support AirTrunk’s 550-megawatt Kurri Kurri data centre campus planned 37 kilometres north-west of Newcastle.

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