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Comet Ridge Lands Gladstone Gas Deal

It is obviously Highview Power’s day, as this project in Queensland, Australia gets five mentions in my Google Alert for Highview Power.

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Industry Queensland.

This is the sub-heading.

Mahalo gas hub developer Comet Ridge has reached a deal with Highview Power to supply the large-scale electricity project it is planning to build at the Aldoga State Development area near Gladstone.

These four paragraphs give a summary of the project.

The volume of gas targeted is 3.6 PJ/a (10 TJ/d) for a minimum of five years.

Highview’s Central Queensland Energy Storage Project is to be constructed in two phases.

Phase 1 consists of a 400MW four-hour battery energy storage system, two 200MW open-cycle gas turbines, a 370MVA synchronous condenser, and associated substations and transmission lines.

Phase 2 will be the build-out of a 200MW 12-hour liquid air energy storage system.

It looks like Highview Power’s battery is one of their larger systems and is a 200 MW/2.4 GWh version.

On Highview Power’s Projects page, this is said under a header of Australia.

Highview is developing a series of base‑load renewable energy power stations in Australia, with planning now underway for three major programmes. In Gladstone, Central Queensland, and Townsville, North Queensland, we are progressing large scale projects combining LDES and short-term battery storage. On the Darwin–Katherine network in the Northern Territory, plans are advancing for an integrated scheme incorporating solar generation, LDES and battery. Together, these initial developments will help Australia meet its target of halving carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050.

Gladstone is named in this story and on Highview Power’s web site.

Could Highview Power be making a breakthrough in process engineering after Sumitomo’s success at the LNG Terminal at Hiroshima.

July 23, 2026 - Posted by | Design, Energy, Energy Storage | , , , , , ,

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