The New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced a new AUD 66 million ($43 million) Renewables Manufacturing Hub to produce components for wind turbines and solar trackers locally. 

The hub will produce 780 turbine anchors for the wind sector, thousands of torque tubes, mounts and brackets for solar farms, and 200 monopoles annually for transmission infrastructure.

It will be operated by local Australian metal recycling company Sell & Parker, which has secured a AUD 28 million ($18.3 million) grant from the administration. Sell & Parker itself will invest AUD 38 million (E25 million) and will design, build, commission, test, and complete the factory.

The NSW government says this hub will be located in Blacktown, Western Sydney. It will produce 46,000 tonnes of competitively priced steel annually on completion, strengthening the state’s domestic industrial capability. 

“This facility will not only deliver the steel components needed for renewable energy projects across the state, but it will also strengthen Western Sydney’s role as a powerhouse of innovation and manufacturing,” said NSW’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Penny Sharpe.

The state grant comes from the Renewable Manufacturing Construction Ready Stream of NSW’s AUD 480 million Net Zero Manufacturing Initiative, through which it aims to develop new low-emission technologies by 2050 and build local manufacturing capacity for critical low-carbon products.

NSW announced the initiative in February 2024 to provide up to AUD 275 million in grants to support local manufacturing of clean technology (see Australian State To Support Clean Technology Manufacturing).