Matt Kean says 16 bids have been shortlisted in Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap tenders

The NSW government is looking closely at bidders in the first round of a decade long financial assistance program to provide new generation and storage capacity - including grid-scale batteries - to replace the state's fleet of coal-fired power stations. Picture from Victorian government

SIXTEEN clean energy projects have been shortlisted by the National Electricity Market regulator as it works to finalise the first tender conducted under its Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap, which includes the Hunter and Central Coast regions as a renewable energy zone.

The 4.3 gigawatts of generation would be enough to power 1.6 million homes.