Eight transmission projects in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) will receive $3.2 billion from the federal Rewiring the Nation scheme and $2.1 billion from the state-level Transmission Acceleration Facility, according to announcements made in late December. These lines will cover the Snowy Hydro pumped storage project and tens of GW of wind and solar across the state’s Renewable Energy Zones (REZs). A similar agreement in October with Tasmania and the neighboring state of Victoria saw a spend of $1.5 billion from the Rewiring the Nation plan for Victoria’s Renewable Energy Zones, offshore wind in the Gippsland region, and the Victorian segment of the Victoria-New South Wales Interconnector (VNI West) KerangLink. Victoria also agreed to contribute an equal…