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Project Update - May 2025

15 May 2025

  • Energisation of Swanbank Battery in our sights

    Energisation of the Swanbank Battery is just months away, with work now complete on connecting all 138 Megapacks to the coupling transformers.

    Energisation is expected to be complete in August. Extensive testing will then be done in the second half of 2025 before the battery can begin supplying power to the National Electricity Market late in 2025. The Swanbank Battery will be capable of delivering 250MW for two hours.

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  • Meet our Battery Superintendent, Steve Hogg

    With energisation of the Swanbank Battery firmly in our sights, CleanCo has appointed Steve Hogg to its first ever role of Battery Superintendent.

    Steve brings wide-ranging experience across the energy sector, having worked in hydro power stations, high voltage substations and gas-fired stations as well as a grid-scale battery project on the Western Downs. He’s excited to take on the role of Battery Superintendent for CleanCo’s first grid-scale owned and operated battery at Swanbank in Ipswich.

  • CleanCo investigating additional gas turbines

    CleanCo is exploring opportunities to expand our gas-fired generating capacity at Swanbank. A study is underway to consider the addition of fast start, renewable gas-ready turbines, up to 250MW, to be owned and operated by CleanCo.

    These turbines would support a lower emission, more flexible energy system. While the turbines would utilise existing natural gas supply to the site, future renewable gas options could include biomethane and hydrogen.


  • Cheers Suntory Oceania!

    Members of the Swanbank Regional Business Forum recently got a sneak peak inside the newest operation in the Swanbank industrial precinct - Suntory Oceania's state of the art drinks production facility.

    More than 20 people attended the March forum, enjoying a tour of Suntory Oceania's carbon neutral factory, which produces more than 1600 cans per minute. The site covers 17 hectares and began production in September 2024.

  • Supporting the local community

    From an after-school homework support group to a new BBQ for a neighbourhood centre, CleanCo has proudly supported a range of initiatives close to our Swanbank site through our Community Futures Fund, helping to maintain vital services in the region.

    In Ipswich, the Sudanese-Australian Lost Boys and Girls of South Sudan Inc (SALBAGOSS INC), was able to purchase educational resources for the students who attend a weekly after school homework club at Redbank Plains Community Centre.

    Learn more about the fund 

  • We cleaned up!

    CleanCo's Swanbank site got a spruce up in March, with team members from our Swanbank and Brisbane sites collecting road-side rubbish for Clean Up Australia Day 2025.

    This was the third year CleanCo has participated in the nation-wide clean up event. The group collected more than 50 bags of rubbish along with three truck tyres and a 4WD roof rack, which one of our team happily repurposed.

  • Visitors get a bird's eye view of E Station

    Representatives from the Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism had the chance to see the inner workings of our gas-fired E station early this month when they toured the station.

    The visit brought together Departmental staff from across south east Queensland to learn more about how CleanCo is engaging with members of the First Nations community in the development of the Swanbank site into a Clean Energy Hub.