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New solar project for Broken Hill will be operational by 2015

Silver city becomes solar city ABC Broken Hill, By Noah Schultz-Byard, June, 2012   Broken Hill will host one half of the largest solar energy project in the southern hemisphere, it was announced today. The $450 million project will have an ultimate output of 159 megawatts, enough to power 33,000 homes, and will be constructed across two sites; Broken Hill and Nyngan.
The Broken Hill site will consist of nearly a million solar photovoltaic (Solar PV) panels and will be built to the west of the
city. Construction is hoped to begin in 2014 and is expected to bring 150 jobs to Broken Hill and a further 300 to Nyngan.
The solar farm is expected to be operating by 2015 and is a joint venture between the Federal and State Governments and Australian energy company AGL….. The Mayor of Broken Hill Wincen Cuy says the
project will provide a welcome boost to the local economy….. “It’s a
great opportunity for Broken Hill to be, once again, put on the
national stage as an innovator and a place to be and a place to come
to work.”
AGL is also involved in the significant Silverton Wind Farm project
just north of Broken Hill and Mayor Cuy says the city is now well on
the way to being known as the renewable energies centre of Australia.
“Broken Hill has been famed for the resources that it’s been able to
produce over the last 130 odd years.
“Now we could d become the renewable energy of Australia, how good
would that be?”…
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/06/09/3521811.htm

June 11, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | New South Wales, solar | solar