The Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Project pays its respect to the Traditional Custodians of Country, their Elders—past and present, and acknowledges their ancestral connection to the land, seas, and waterways. The project honours the collective knowledge, experiences, cultures, and traditions of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who for thousands of years have shared and exchanged knowledge, nurtured, and loved Country for the benefit of all.

Marking an important planning milestone

September 2023

The Oven Mountain Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Project is pleased to advise that our Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be on public exhibition from 19^th September 2023 to 16^th October 2023.

The exhibition of the EIS by the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) represents several years of site and field investigations, community engagement, and skills, training, and education discussions. The exhibition also marks an important milestone in the NSW Planning and Environment process, where interested community members can have their say.

Pumped hydro energy storage is a mature and proven technology used widely across the world. The Oven Mountain Project will play a critical role in delivering much needed long duration storage capacity, as well as dispatchable energy, to meet changing needs across New South Wales and Australia.

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The Project will also help secure a more sustainable future by directly supporting the development of up to 1,600 MWs of additional renewable energy projects in the New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ).

The Oven Mountain Project will also provide significant opportunities to capture much needed regional investment, job creation, and community benefits in the Mid-North Coast and New England regions. The Project will also result in many market and environmental benefits, including a reduction of approximately 400,000 tonnes CO2-e in generation emissions.

We would like to thank the many stakeholders and community members that have offered their time, effort, and personal insights. Your contributions have informed our design process and will help ensure that we deliver the best outcome for the region.

To view the project’s EIS and have your say, please visit the NSW Government’s Major Projects Portal.

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