New South Wales is gearing up for a large solar project to increase NSW’s renewable energy production. The Moree Solar Farm will be built near Moree in the north of NSW’s and is expected to generate more than 400 gigawatt hours of electricity a year which is capable of running 45,000 homes, state and federal officials said in a statement just released (June 20th).
Australia has allocated about $900 million for the project to boost solar power in NSW and to reduce the total carbon emissions of the state. The project is part of NSW’s aim to be the lowest carbon emitting state and to become the solar PV capital of Australia.
"The solar project will be the largest of its type, I am advised, in the world," said Kevin Humphries, minister for Western New South Wales.
The Australian government said that projects like these will not only boost the state alone; individual large scale state project will have a huge impact in the overall solar credentials of the nation. For instance the energy output of the Moree Solar Farm in NSW will be directed towards that state but the project will increase the confidence of Australian and overseas investors inour projects planned for the rest of the country.
In addition to this project Australia has two more exciting large scale solar power projects underway; the CopperString and Solar Dawn projects in the new renewable energy hub area of Northern Qld.This will greatly boost solar power in Queensland as well as create many new jobs, and in time it too will have its flow on effects on all of Australia.
Collectively all the renewable energy projects around the country will aid in Australia’s aim to of met their carbon emissions targets by the year 2020.
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