Barcaldine Solar Farm
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The Barcaldine Solar Farm is a solar farm located five kilometres east of the town of Barcaldine in Central Queensland, Australia. The power station is owned by Elecnor and is situated on a 90 hectare site. It will use single-axis tracking technology.[1] The power station can generate 20 megawatts AC.[1] It consists of 78,000 panels.[2]
Power was supplied to the grid in December 2016.[3] It was Queensland's first large scale solar farm.[4]
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References
[edit]- ^ a b "Fact Sheet: Central Queensland solar farm supports rural and remote communities" (PDF). Clean Energy Finance Corporation. December 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ "Barcaldine powering the move to big solar across Australia". Australian Renewable Energy Agency. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ Jasmina (15 December 2016). "Barcaldine Solar Farm achieves first generation". Australian Manufacturing. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
- ^ Parkinson, Giles (10 October 2017). "Elecnor gets approval to add 50MW to Qld's first solar farm". Retrieved 25 October 2023.
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