Australia top solar: Moree Solar Farm PV & Chinchilla CSP GAS hybrid plant

Australia Solar Flagship program

The Federal Government has announced the

recipients for funding from Round 1 of the

Solar Flagships Program.

Moree Solar Farm - PV

in NSW’s Central Tablelands is a 150MW photovoltaic installation,

Chinchilla, Queensland CSP Gas Hybrid

and the Solar Dawn consortium is planning to build a 250MW

hybrid gas/concentrating solar power plant in Chinchilla, Queensland.

400 MW

Both projects are pending final approvals, but if cleared will be a welcome addition to Australia’s growing solar power portfolio. With a combined expected capacity of 400MW (enough to power 100,000 homes), the approval of these plants will mark the first time in Australian history that renewable solar power has been designed to be large and reliable enough to rival coal as a source of baseload power. Construction of these plants will be more expensive than the construction of a coal-fired plant of similar size, but all (or most) of the energy generated will be carbon emission-free.

source: solarchoice.net.au