TransGrid Project Assessment Draft Report

Stakeholders, customers and interested members of the public are invited to have their say on the findings of the PADR, with submissions due by 15th November 2019.

Submissions can be emailed to:

regulatory.consultation@transgrid.com.au

 

In November 2018, TransGrid and Powerlink published the Regulatory Investment Test for Transmission (RIT-T) Project Specification Consultation Report (PSCR)

 

TransGrid, together with Powerlink, have now published an RIT-T Project Assessment Draft Report (PADR) on expanding Queensland to New South Wales transmission transfer capacity.

 

The report details the preferred option (1A):

  • Uprating the Liddell to Tamworth transmission lines

  • Installing new dynamic reactive support at Tamworth and Dumaresq

  • Installing new shunt capacitor banks at Tamworth, Dumaresq and Armidale

 
 
 

This option is expected to:

  • deliver net benefits of approximately $200 million over the 25 year assessment period (in present value terms);

  • reduce the need for new generation and large-scale storage in New South Wales to meet demand following Liddell Power Station’s forecast retirement over 2022 and 2023;

  • lower the aggregate generator fuel costs required to meet demand in the National Electricity Market (NEM) going forward;

  • minimise capital costs associated with enabling greater integration of renewables in the NEM;

  • generate sufficient benefits solely by avoiding construction of what would otherwise be built in Liddell’s place to recover the project capital costs.

The project is expected to cost $175 million with the first stage complete by 2020

 
Research Officer