Commercial Operations Started for 480 MW Solar Farm in Australia

ACCIONA Energía has completed the commissioning and start of commercial operations of the 480 MWp Aldoga Solar Farm, located approximately 20 km north-west of Gladstone on the central Queensland coast, in Australia.

The Solar Farm will generate clean electricity equivalent to the annual consumption of approximately 185,000 households and avoid around 934,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions each year—an impact comparable to removing 360,000 combustion vehicles from the roads. The asset’s entire renewable energy output will be supplied to Queensland’s state-owned energy company Stanwell Corporation, under a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), playing a pivotal role to step up decarbonisation in the region.

Under the terms of the power purchase agreement, Stanwell will take the entire energy output from the Aldoga Solar Farm, selling it either into the spot market or directly to its commercial and industrial customers. Commercial operations are beginning eight months after construction was finished and roughly 20 months after the project first broke ground.