Two new solar plants with more than 460mW capacity are about to start in New South Wales.
German-based Belectric confirms it’s ready to begin building the first shortly, both likely to help with electric vehicle uptake.
Belectric will develop the 347mW Limondale solar farm at Balranald, and the 115mW Hillston solar farm, both owned by fellow Germany renewables company Innogy, RenewEconomy reports.
Innogy bought the two undeveloped solar projects from local developer Overland Sun Farming in February.
Innogy indicated it would build the two projects for about $620 million, and would seek more solar, wind and storage opportunities in the Australian market.
“For us as EPC provider with close to 2gW of executed projects all over the world, Australia is a promising market to further strengthen our global leading position,” Belectric solar and battery managing director Martin Zembsch says.
“Large-scale solar has gone from an emerging technology at the beginning of the decade to a genuinely game-changing form of electricity generation in Australia: High solar irradiation and rapidly falling costs have enabled a large number of new projects.”
Belectric Australia has other solar projects, including the 4.77mW Chillamurra solar plant at Goondiwindi in Queensland, the 10.8mW facility at Barcaldine Queensland and the 3.3mW solar project at Dareton NSW.
