Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan during a tour of the West Gate Tunnel construction at Footscray, in Melbourne, Australia, on July 7, 2025. AAP Image/Con Chronis
The Allan Labor Government has signed off on Victoria’s biggest-ever battery storage project—a one-gigawatt facility near Portland that promises to store enough renewable energy to power 345,000 homes at peak demand.
Pacific Green’s Portland Energy Park will include four separate 250-megawatt “battery parks” and a new terminal station linked into the state grid.
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