New South Wales’ getting two huge solar energy power plants
LIVING GREEN: Restoring habitats Newcastle Herald, By KAREN TOIRKENS Aug. 4, 2013“………NSW OUTBACK GOES SOLAR NEW South Wales is set to be home to the largest solar power station in the southern hemisphere, with power company AGL announcing that it will install two million thin-film photovoltaic panels at two sites in western NSW.
The solar-energy plants will have a combined 155-megawatt capacity, enough to power about 50,000 households.The larger of the two plants (102 megawatts) will be built in Nyngan, north-west of Dubbo, while the smaller 53-megawatt plant will be constructed near Broken Hill.
Together they will cover an area four times the size of the Sydney CBD.
Federal Minister for Climate Change Mark Butler said the installations represent a big step forward towards the contribution of solar to the nation’s energy mix.”Australia has the highest average solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world and we should take advantage of that,” Mr Butler said.
The $450-million project will receive $166.7 million in federal funding through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, with the NSW government investing a further $64.9 million in the project….. http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1682069/living-green-restoring-habitats/?cs=303
Construction will begin on the plants from January, with both expected to be supplying a combined 360,000 megawatts of clean electricity annually to the eastern Australian grid by late 2015.
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