The project was announced in March 2017 by Lyon Group at a press conference which included Jay Weatherill, the premier of South Australia.

[4] However only a month later, another press release announced that the project was on track to commence construction in early 2019.

At the time, Lyon was attempting to sell several of its development projects, including Riverland Solar Storage.

[6] Lyon continued to prepare development of Riverland and two sister projects, and announced partners JERA (a joint venture of Tokyo Electric Power Company and Chubu Electric Power) and Fluence (a joint venture of Siemens and AES Corporation) for the battery storage in May 2018.

In October 2019, Lyon announced that it had reached an arrangement with China Huadian Corporation to partner in developing projects in Australia and Asia.