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Grid Storage
Central West hydroelectric plant
17th-largest grid storage in Australia of 23 · top 75% worldwide (#719 of 965)
- Owner
- ATCO Ltd
- Status
- construction
- Capacity
- 325 MW
- Technology
- pumped storage
- Commissioned
- 2029
- Also listed as
- A power plant — this site generates as well as stores
Comparable grid storages · Australia · 23 ranked
- #1Borumba Dam hydroelectric plant2.0 GW
- #15Muswellbrook hydroelectric plant400 MW
- #16Lake Lyell hydroelectric plant385 MW
- #17Central West hydroelectric plant325 MW
- #18Dungowan Dam hydroelectric plant300 MW
- #19Stratford Pupmed hydroelectric plant300 MW
Grid connection · within 50 km
- Nearest substation
- Mount Piper Terminal
- Its voltage
- 500 kV
- Distance
- 26 km
- Strongest line nearby
- 500 kV
- Line operator
- TransGrid
- Substations in range
- 2
Mapped grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, whose coverage is excellent in some regions and sparse in others. Nothing shown here means nothing is mappednearby — not that the site is unconnected. Lines are matched on a segment’s midpoint, so a corridor passing directly overhead can be missed; this under-reports rather than invents.
Co-located infrastructure · within 25 km
- Central West hydroelectric plant0 m · Power Plant · 325 MW · hydro
- Sunny Corner wind farm8.4 km · Power Plant · 500 MW · wind
- Moomba Sydney Pipeline System — Young to Lithgow and Bathurst Pipeline11 km · Pipeline
- Mount Lambie wind farm16 km · Power Plant · 200 MW · wind
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Portfolio
Watercourse: Fish River
SOURCE: Global Energy Monitor · Global Integrated Power, March 2026 (CC BY 4.0)