Sam Evans
speaker
11,513 appearances
100 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Sam Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 100 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 32.
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And it's time to actually look at the things we are doing in this country.
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Stop focusing on what we're not doing and focus on what we are doing.
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This battery isn't going in alone either.
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The Musselbrook Clean Industries Precinct is stacking up multiple clean energy projects on that old mine site.
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There's the Musselbrook Solar Farm and the Musselbrook Solar Farm and Battery, which is being developed by Itamitsu Australia with Swedish developer OX2.
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And there's the Bells Mountain Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Project, a partnership between AGL and Itamitsu.
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Solar, pumped hydro, and now long-duration flow batteries.
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All on land that used to just be used to mine for coal.
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On jobs, the Hunter vanadium flow battery is expected to create around 100 construction jobs plus five ongoing operational roles once it's running.
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Inamitsu has also put up a community benefit fund of $27,600, offering grants of around $3,500 or about $5,000 to local schools, sporting clubs, volunteer groups, First Nations organisations and service providers as well.
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Now, let me be straight about what we don't know yet.
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This is technically in the planning stage.
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It's a proposal.
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It has to be built.
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They haven't started yet.
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We don't know the cost of this battery and we don't know when production will begin.
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So I'm not going to invent those numbers.
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When Itamitsu confirms the cost and the schedule, I'll bring that to you.
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But the direction of travel here is unmistakable.
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A Japanese oil company taking a dead Australian coal mine and turning it into a precinct built on solar, pumped hydro, and an 864 megawatt iron flow battery running on technology an Australian engineer invented 40 years ago.
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