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Callum Godde

Big battery first to be funded under revived commission

The first sod has been turned on a new battery storage development at Melton in Melbourne. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

A battery, billed as one of the biggest in the world, will be the first project funded under Victoria's revived State Energy Commission but it won't be majority-government owned.

The SEC will invest $245 million into a renewable energy hub near Melton in Melbourne's outer west.

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