Decision Brief And Recommendation Report For Eraring Battery Energy Storage System – EPBC 2021/8956.

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The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment assessed Origin Energy's proposal for a grid-scale Battery Energy Storage System adjacent to Eraring Power Station in NSW under the EPBC Act. The project triggered potential impacts on threatened species, specifically the Green and Golden Bell Frog (Litoria aurea—Vulnerable) in the adjacent Muddy Lake system. The Department recommended the action be declared "not a controlled action if undertaken in a particular manner" (NCA-PM), indicating that with specified conditions, the proposal would not trigger significant impacts on listed threatened species or communities under section 18 of the EPBC Act. Ministerial comments were received during assessment. The recommendation was issued within the statutory timeframe on 19 July 2021, with conditions outlined in an attached notice.