Installed volume/year LGC marked sub 20 MW
Although the headline utility-scale figures show a major drop off, it was always going to be impossible to fill the gap left by Australia’s largest PV power plants Nyngan (102 MW), Broken Hill (53 MW) and Moree (70 MW) projects, which came online in 2015, but were five years in the making and heavily subsidized by the Australian Federal Government.
However, if systems larger than 20 MW are excluded (just one – Baracaldine – was above this threshold in 2016), there was actually significant growth. A record volume of systems in the 5-20 MW range was installed: Mugga Lane (13 MW) and Williamsdale (11 MW) in the Australian Capital Territory, and the 10.6 MW Degrussa Solar Project providing off grid power to a copper mine in Western Australia. On top of this, every other size category above 100 kW saw growth in 2016.
Share
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.