00:00Yeah, things are going really well. I'm on site today and you can see the backdrop here just how
00:04well it's progressing and you know the team has done an incredibly good job. We've had record
00:11rain through the months of March and April and we're still on track for commissioning in 2025 so
00:17it's they've done a superb job. Because we've made so much good headway with stage one we're going
00:23to stage two. Stage two will be a 240 megawatt capacity size battery but it will be four hours
00:30in duration which is quite an exciting announcement. So when we combine stage one and stage two the
00:37total capacity of this battery will be 700 megawatts. The really good side we have one
00:43lots of land so that's ideal for a battery location. Secondly and probably the most
00:48important is that we have access to transmission. There's a transmission just over here for the
00:53existing power station and that transmission line goes straight to Sydney so the access to market
00:58is absolutely ideal and very perfectly located for a battery. So batteries will have an increasing
01:04role to play in the NEM and what we are finding is so much more renewables is coming to the system
01:10which is intermittent and batteries respond very very quickly. So when we have a cloud cover which
01:17produces less solar batteries can kick in very quickly. So the flexibility of batteries are
01:22very important in the system and that's what we're building.
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