SOMEVA PTY LTD
POTTINGER ENERGY PARK - WIND FARM AND BATTERY (BESS) PROJECT
Pottinger Renewables Pty Ltd is a partnership between Someva Renewables and AGL Energy. Someva Renewables is a NSW family-owned, Australian based company, who has spent the past four years measuring the wind assets in the Hay and Edward River Local Government Areas, designing the development and consulting with community. AGL operates Australia's largest private electricity generation portfolio, and as the second-oldest listed company in Australia, has a 185-year history of operation.
The Pottinger Energy Park is a GW-scale wind farm battery energy storage system project. It is located in the outer regional areas of NSW, approximately 60km south of Hay and 75km north of Deniliquin in the rural locality of Booroorban. The project is located entirely within the South West Renewable Energy Zone. The associated infrastructure includes:
- Wind turbines and their hardstands
- Battery energy storage systems
- Internal access tracks
- Public road upgrades
- 330 kV/ 33 kV substations
- 330 kV switchyard
- 330 kV overhead transmission line
- 33 kV underground cables
- Permanent Operations and Maintenance building
- Temporary construction compounds, concrete batching plants, accommodation
The project is estimated to provide Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employment for up to 550 personnel during construction and 35 personnel during operations. Construction of the project may commence in late 2026. Our Commitments to the SW REZ include Regional Development and Local Supply Chain. As such, we particularly seek the following details within your expressions of interest:
- The extent (percentage) of steel products and components produced or sourced using locally (Australian) milled steel.
- Number of 'learning workers'* you have and/or will likely have by late 2026, including a description of any strategies you have in place here as a company.
- Number of 'underrepresented groups'** you have and/or will likely have by late 2026, including a description of any strategies you have in place here as a company.
No main contractors have been engaged at this stage. It is expected that most of these work packages will be available through the main contractors.
After registration of Expression of Interest, we may contact you for clarifications. Once we have selected our main contractractors, we will connect you with our selected main contractors.
Project website: https://www.somevarenewables.com.au/pottinger
* As defined in the NSW Renewable Energy Sector Board Plan, a 'learning worker' is a worker without qualifications or who needs to update their qualifications or skills to meet the needs of the infrastructure project. This includes trainees and apprentices. Training must be accredited vocational education and training (VET) or nationally recognised professional qualifications that meet the needs of the project and can be full or part qualifications (such as one or more units of competency). It may be subsidised by government funding or through a fee-for-service arrangement. Participants in the NSW Government Trade Pathways Program are included as learning workers.
** Underrepresented groups include people with characteristics defined in the Anti-discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) and people who are long-term unemployed in addition to young people and women.
SOMEVA PTY LTD
NSW Australia
Project Primary Contact
Work Packages
Open to expressions of interest from local businesses interested in providing their labour or services for Pottinger Energy Park. Examples include (but not limited to):
- Plant operators such as loaders, excavators, graders, dozers, rollers, piling rigs
- Labour such as concrete hands, electrical, mechanical, administration, general labour.
- Rehabilitation consultants and revegetation seed suppliers
- Portable/ mobile food suppliers
- Cleaners (amenities, industrial cleaning and waste removal)
- Traffic management services
- Fire Safety
- Fire alarm and fire extinguisher services
- Security personnel during construction and provision of CCTV
- Supply of rental vehicles both for on-site and off-site applications.
- Supply of meteorological stations for solar farms
- Safety equipment and PPE supply
- Technology Infrastructure
- Equipment hire - torque tools
- Construction certification
Full Scope
- Upgrade/construct public roads, on-site access tracks, stormwater drainage systems
- Clearing and grubbing
- Bulk excavation for roads, foundations and hardstands
- Erosion and sediment control
- Blasting
- Soil stabilisation and rehabilitation
Full Scope
Supply and operate:
- Mobile certified batching plants and concrete materials
- Concrete agitator trucks
- Concrete placing equipment
Supply pre-cast products like culverts
Full Scope
- Provision of cranes and operators to assemble large scale wind farm including crane hire, cranage services, turbine installation up to a hub height of 180m.
- Provision of other equipment such as telehandlers, forklifts, elevated work platforms (EWP)
Full Scope
- Pest management
- Sediment fencing
- Rock check dams
- Native flora/fauna management
- Rehabilitation including hydro seeding or hydro mulching
- Landscape screening planting
Full Scope
Supply and install of:
- Permanent and temporary fencing and gates
- Cattle grids
- Permanent signs
Full Scope
- Grouting and sealing of wind turbine towers and substation equipment
Full Scope
- Supply of testing and commissioning high voltage (33kV and 330kV) connections and facilities
Full Scope
- Provision of logistic services such as international, regional and local transport, remote warehousing, Track and Trace and/or other logistics services.
Full Scope
- Provision of services including termination, testing and commissioning of low voltage networks and connections, AC/DC supplies, protection and control and UPS/batteries
- Safety testing (test and tag) of electrical equipment on site
Full Scope
- Mechanical installation of wind turbine components
- Electrical installation of wind turbine components including DC, AC, MV, FO, earthing underground cable installations, terminations, substation installations and above ground elecrtical works
Full Scope
Supply and installation of:
- Tower foundations
- Tower erection
- Stringing cables, communications and earthing.
- Terminations
- UG/OH connections
Full Scope
- Supply and install permanent Operations and Maintenance building including office building with amenities, changerooms, meeting rooms, data and storage rooms, offices and open plan offices, solar hot water, water storage tanks, sewerage system and back-up diesel generator plus warehouse.
Full Scope
Supply and delivery of:
- Rock
- Road base
- Aggregate
- Blue metal
- Fine sand
- Crusher dust
- Thermal rated bedding sand
Full Scope
- Supply and operate shuttle buses between town centres/accommodation camps and the project site
Full Scope
"Particularly locally milled steel, the supply of:
- Reinforcement steel for wind turbine foundations
- Concrete formwork and consumable materials
- Potable water, rainwater and fire water tanks
Full Scope
- Supply, install, operate and decommission temporary site accommodation for construction workers and staff including sleeping compartments, amenities, toilets, other buildings (e.g. dining room, communal laundries etc.)
- Operation includes waste disposal, cleaning, catering, water supply, maintenance etc.
- Solar powered accommodation options
Full Scope
- Supply, install and decommission temporary site compounds including site offices, amenities, laydown area, carpark, lunch rooms, meeting rooms, first aid room
- Solar powered temporary site compound options
- Operation includes waste disposal, cleaning, fuel supply, water supply, maintenance etc.
Full Scope
- Trenching and backfilling for underground cables
- Installation, termination, splicing and jointing of 33kV underground cable, copper wire and fibre optic cables
Full Scope
- Supply and operate water carts (at least 18kL size carts) for dust suppression and construction water needs
Full Scope
Construction Material Testing
Full Scope
- Supply and delivery of diesel
- Provision of diesel generators for hire
- Provision of on-site, self-bunded double walled fuel storage tanks"
