Located in the heart of the surat basin near wandoan in queensland the 1 000mwac solar farm will be one of the largest solar projects in australia once completed.
Equis wandoan solar farm.
Equis to develop 1 000mw solar.
Construction has begun on a 120 megawatt solar farm near wandoan with up to 200 jobs to be created during the build.
It is shell australia s first industrial scale solar electricity farm solar.
The wandoan solar farm will be situated right in the middle of queensland s coal and gas region in queensland s area of the surat basin this is exciting news for queensland solar and australian solar farms in.
Singaporean renewable energy company equis energy have advised they are planning on building a 1 000mw solar farm which would be the largest solar farm in australia in wandoan.
A report from reneweconomy stated that equis would spend around 1 5 billion for the project which will be built in stages.
Singapore based equis energy is set to build australia s largest solar farm an 1000 megawatt solar farm near wandoan north west of brisbane as the roll out of renewable projects continues at pace.
The wandoan solar farm will include 3 million solar pv panels and is expected to produce 1 8 million megawatts of electricity a year.
The solar farm will insulate the regional electricity market from fluctuations in fuel prices by increasing the diversity of the energy system.
As for the energy storage component sunshine energy s website refers to a patented solution called sea power seap.
The wandoan solar farm to be built near the town of the same name adds considerably to the huge pipeline of wind and solar projects in queensland which now stands at more than 4 000mw.
The 1000 megawatts wandoan south solar project will be connected to powerlink s wandoan south substation.
Equis energy secures approval for 1 gw australian solar farm the massive utility scale pv plant will be built by the singapore based developer in queensland western downs near wandoan.