Blind Creek Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System

BESS · Ms BCSF Holdings Pty Ltd as trustee for the Blind Creek Solar Farm Trust · Storage - Battery

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Publicly Announced Solar - Solar NEM data · 24 hours

378/486 MW

Registered nameplate capacity / storage

Est. SRMC

$0.21/MWh

Capacity

378 MW / 486 MWh

Status Publicly Announced

Lifecycle Pre-operating

DUID —

Owner Ms BCSF Holdings Pty Ltd as trustee for the Blind Creek Solar Farm Trust

Commissioned —

Expected closure —

Closure date —

Technology Storage - Battery

Fuel Solar - Solar

Module OEM —

Module / inverter supplier —

Inverter OEM —

Inverter model —

Financial overview

2026 real AUD. Monetary values are CPI-adjusted to 2026 real Australian dollars. Greenfield capex uses AEMO benchmarks when plant-specific cost is unknown.

Capex total (greenfield)	$438.61M Source value $415.80M (2024 nominal) How this was derived Plant-specific build cost not found; left null for total to avoid mixing configuration-specific assumptions.
Capex refurbishment	—
Capex / MW	$1,160,338 Source value $1.10M (2024 nominal) How this was derived Used internal default because exact AEMO ETC-derived per-MW storage CAPEX basis for this co-located configuration/duration was not fully extracted for the required nominal year and per-MW definition.
Capex / MWh storage default	$350,000
Fixed OPEX (annual)	$7.18M Source value $6.80M (2024 nominal)
Fixed OPEX / MW-yr	$18,987 Source value $18.0k (2024 nominal) How this was derived Used internal default because fixed O&M benchmark extraction for battery storage (for the relevant duration) was not fully resolved into the required per-MW-year figure for this asset.
Variable OPEX / MWh	$0.21 Source value $0.20 (2024 nominal) How this was derived Used internal default variable O&M because battery variable O&M per MWh not extracted from AEMO ETC/O&M review in current search results.
Fuel cost / GJ	—
Heat rate GJ/MWh	—

Confidence: low · Status: ai estimated · Capex basis: default · AI checked 04 Jun 2026

Notes
Project is development-stage (no clear commissioning date found in sources searched). AEMO/CSIRO ETC review provides battery CAPEX/OPEX benchmarks for co-located BESS; however mapping to this exact plant’s solar+storage configuration and splitting per-MW storage basis requires additional confirmation. Used provided internal defaults where AEMO benchmark values could not be reliably extracted for this technology+duration basis for the requested fields.

Sources

AEMO cost benchmark evidence (context only) — Aurecon for AEMO – 2024 Energy Technology Costs and Technical Parameter Review (PDF) (medium)
capex_per_mw_aud (low)
capex_total_aud (low)
emissions_intensity_tco2_mwh (medium)
fixed_opex_per_mw_year_aud (low)
site capacity confirmation (context only) — NEM Stats – generator listing (Blind Creek Solar Farm and Battery) (low)
variable_opex_per_mwh_aud (low)

Blind Creek Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System

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Financial overview

Sources