Equis Wandoan Solar Farm

The wandoan solar farm to be built near the town of the same name adds considerably to the huge pipeline of wind and solar projects in queensland which now stands at more than 4 000mw.

Equis wandoan solar farm.

The wandoan solar farm will include 3 million solar pv panels and is expected to produce 1 8 million megawatts of electricity a year. The wandoan solar farm will be situated right in the middle of queensland s coal and gas region in queensland s area of the surat basin this is exciting news for queensland solar and australian solar farms in. As for the energy storage component sunshine energy s website refers to a patented solution called sea power seap. Equis energy secures approval for 1 gw australian solar farm the massive utility scale pv plant will be built by the singapore based developer in queensland western downs near wandoan.

It is shell australia s first industrial scale solar electricity farm solar. A report from reneweconomy stated that equis would spend around 1 5 billion for the project which will be built in stages. The 1000 megawatt equis energy solar farm will cover 1424 hectares and generate between 300 and 400 jobs during construction on the land about 12km southwest of wandoan. The solar farm will insulate the regional electricity market from fluctuations in fuel prices by increasing the diversity of the energy system.

Equis to develop 1 000mw solar. The 1000 megawatts wandoan south solar project will be connected to powerlink s wandoan south substation. This project dwarfs any other pv plant currently under construction in australia such as innogy s 349 mwp limondale solar farm and maoneng s the 255 mwp sunraysia solar farm in new south wales total eren s 256 5 mwp kiamal solar farm in victoria. Once the battery is built vena energy plans to begin work on the solar farm at the same.

Singapore based equis energy is set to build australia s largest solar farm an 1000 megawatt solar farm near wandoan north west of brisbane as the roll out of renewable projects continues at pace.