Homebush Battery Energy Storage System

How will this installation affect property values for those living within a kilometre of the site?
Have residents in the surrounding suburbs been mad aware?

Are local emergency services adequately trained and equipped to handle a fire or chemical spill at this facility?
Will the developer be responsible for training cost and will they provide staffing in times of extreme evens?

Does this BESS project align with Sydney’s long-term renewable energy goals, or is it just a stopgap?
What plans have been put in place for server weather events.

The environmental impact on Homebush Bay area hasn’t been fully addressed. Why is the ecological assessment incomplete?

How will local wildlife be protected from this industrial installation in the middle of a residential area?

If the battery system fails and causes power outages, who will be held responsible for the damage?
Will the developer be held responsible?

Large batteries are too hazardous to be located in urban areas.

Seven objections that apply to all wind and solar projects and associated infrastructure.

1. Consider the ABC of intermittent energy to explain the devastating impact of wind droughts.

A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.

B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.

C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.

The ABC is not an acronym; it is just three points that explain why the transition to wind and solar power is impossible with current storage technology. Consequently we are approaching a tipping point when coal capacity runs down to the point where there is not be enough dispatchable capacity to meet demand on windless nights.

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/

2. The human and environmental impact through all the stages from mining in remote places overseas to the disposal of toxic junk in local landfill. The result on the ground in Australia is the criminal and possibly irreversible poisoning of good farmland with a range of toxic chemicals that leach out of solar panels and turbine blades. And that is even before the additional pollution in the process of getting rid of the rubbish after the relatively short lives of the hardware.

3 Protecting farmland. See Article 2 from the Paris Agreement in 2015.

This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the Convention, including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by:

Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production;

That means no solar projects, no wind projects, no battery projects on rural land.

4. There is no business case for the unreliable energy providers in the absence of subsidies and mandates.

5. The rising cost of energy has driven many energy-intensive enterprises to the wall or overseas, with more to come.

6. National security is undermined by sourcing most of the expensive and unreliable energy infrastructure from a potentially hostile nation.

7. The opportunity cost, which is hardly ever mentioned. That is not the cost in dollars that just adds to the national debt. We don’t actually see that, it is just a number that gets bigger every month. The opportunity cost is all the useful things that we don’t get to see, things that we could have got for the same amount of money, like hospitals, schools, roads, bridges, disability services, police, military hardware etc.

Instead we spend tens of billions to get more expensive and less reliable energy with a tragic environmental impact from assets that will be stranded as soon as the subsidies and mandates stop.

AND WE ARE APPROACHING A TIPPING POINT when coal capacity runs down to the point where there is not enough to meet the base load, that is the minimum supply required day and night.

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/

If the battery system fails and causes power outages!
Who will be held responsible for the damage?
Will there be diesel generator on site?

The noise and light pollution from the battery system will disrupt residents’ sleep.
Has this been considered?
What mitigation plans have been considered?
were local resedender involved in the process?

Will the Homebush BESS increase pollution from toxic battery chemicals in case of leakage or fire? how will this be mitigated.

The cost of this project is huge compared to the benefit. How do you justify spending taxpayer money on a system with such limited capacity? We need to build more coal capacity.

Is there a plan to evacuate nearby residents quickly in case of a lithium battery fire or explosion?

Calling this a "clean energy solution" is nothing but marketing spin and false propaganda!

BESS systems don’t generate energy, are made from conflict minerals, require coal-fired electricity to charge, and endanger their communities.

This is not genuinely renewable, clean or green at all - this is dangerous tech masquerading as sustainable.

These batteries require materials often sourced from forced labor. How can the government guarantee the supply chain is free of slavery? This has been pointed out on many many project but with near an answer!

Has an independent safety audit been done on this BESS? If yes, why hasn’t the community been shown the full report?

The battery system can only power about 30,000 homes for a few hours. Is this really worth risking thousands of lives and properties?

The Homebush BESS plan is the antithesis of Energy Grid Resilience.

It’s all about financial engineering to benefit vested interests whilst substantially harming Australian Grid stability and security as well as electricity consumers - by withholding supply to profit from spikes.

This BESS will NOT stabilise the Grid —it unjustly plays the disingenuous fake green system.

Genuine synchronous inertia provided effortlessly, affordably and securely from our own sovereign Coal Power is absolutely essential and cannot be faked with synchronous condensors or incapable BESS such as this.

No one in the local area has been properly informed about this project.
Why were residents not told about such a dangerous installation near their homes?

I object to the Homebush BESS due to serious fire risks so close to homes.
How will the community be protected if a battery fire breaks out overnight?

No decent Government would approve such a dangerous and poisonous plan - unless they intended to harm Australia & the public!

When this facility burns, it will rain down lithium hexafluorophosphate, cobalt oxide, and heavy metals onto the people, wildlife and into surrounding soil and waterways.

The long-term environmental impact will devastate urban ecology and human health.

Just think of the cumulative impacts from all this toxic rubbish that the greedy vested interests are ripping Australian families, poor pensioners and struggling businesses/industry off with!

It’s totally unjust and heartless that we are all suffering, going without food and heating because we are deliberately being deprived of our own, far superior affordable Australian COAL power by predatory networks, dodgy developers/generators and this shamefully unethical and unjust, CCP prioritising Government.