Maoneng Australia, John Laing and Decmil have started the construction of Sunraysia Solar Farm located around 17km south of the Balranald town centre and around 140km south east of Mildura, within the Balranald Shire Council Local Government Area of New South Wales, south-east Australia.
More than 755,000 solar panels (255MW DC) will be mounted onto Single Axis Tracking tubes and more than 4,000 km of cables and 100,000 piles will be installed over a development footprint of up to 800 Hectares.
The solar farm is expected to generate approximately 529 GWh of energy per year when commissioned; which is the equivalent to powering up to 50,000 households and offsetting approximately 430,000 tonnes of CO2.
The solar farm is connected to a 33/220kV substation co-located on-site where the energy is transferred to the Transgrid 220kV Balranald Substation. From there the energy is then transferred either towards Buronga/VIC or Darlington Point/NSW.
As part of the works, approximately 400km of new Dark Fibre will be installed between the Buronga and Darlington Point substations to improve communication and control of the solar farm.
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