{"id":12741,"date":"2017-06-26T07:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=12741"},"modified":"2017-06-26T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T21:13:56","slug":"sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunraysia Solar Farm Gets Green Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12742\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12742\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-project.jpg\" alt=\"Sunraysia Solar Farm\" width=\"700\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-project.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-project-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunraysia Solar Farm &#8211; Balranald, New South Wales &#8211; Maoneng Australia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 200MW solar farm proposed for near Balranald in New South Wales received state government approval last week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In terms of capacity, Sunraysia Solar Farm will be nearly twice as large as Australia&#8217;s biggest currently operating solar farm (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/start-construction-utility-scale-solar-nyngan-proved-arenas-worth\/\">Nyngan<\/a>). Once complete, the power station could take the title as the largest solar farm in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSunny Balranald is an ideal location for solar projects and has spare capacity on its electricity network,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/frRKKZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> NSW Minister for Resources and Energy, Don Harwin. \u201cIt may even become home to two of the largest solar farms in the country, if a proposal for Limondale Solar Farm is approved, with further capacity for 240 megawatts of energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sunraysia project is expected to create 250 construction jobs, and once operating will generate enough electricity to supply 76,000 households. There will be ongoing employment for a small team of workers who will provide maintenance services after the solar farm is built.<\/p>\n<p>Balranald Shire covers an area of 21,346 square kilometres and has a population of 2,361 &#8211; so the project will provide a welcome boost to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunraysia Solar Farm site comprises around 1000 hectares of private freehold land located approximately 17 kilometres south of Balranald town centre and 140km south east of Mildura.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12743\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Sunraysia Solar Project Site Map\" width=\"700\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-farm.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-farm-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunraysia Solar Farm Site Map<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The developer of the project is <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Z9wCN4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maoneng Australia<\/a>. Sunraysia won&#8217;t be Maoneng&#8217;s first rodeo in Australia &#8211; it was the company behind the Mugga Lane Solar Park in the ACT; a 13 MW solar PV facility consisting of 53,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a>. Officially opened in March this year, Mugga Lane is expected to generate 24,500MWh of clean energy in its first twelve months of operations.<\/p>\n<p>The company says its development pipeline consists of approximately 2000 MW of utility and industrial scale solar energy projects, including Sunraysia, across the Asia Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Maoneng Group Executive Chairman Morris Zhou said he anticipated commencement of construction of Sunraysia Solar Farm in the final quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Harwin said New South Wales has &#8220;outdone itself in large-scale solar&#8221;, with operational solar plants cranking clean electricity in Nyngan (102 MW), Moree (56 MW) and Broken Hill (53 MW).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrengthening the state\u2019s energy security, and developing economic opportunities and boosting jobs in our regions are priorities for this government,&#8221; he said. &#8221; When we make this happen through renewable energy projects it\u2019s a win-win for NSW.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 200MW solar farm proposed for near Balranald in New South Wales received state government approval last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunraysia Solar Farm Gets Green Light - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A 200MW solar farm proposed for construction near Balranald in New South Wales received state government approval last week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunraysia Solar Farm Gets Green Light\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 200MW solar farm proposed for construction near Balranald in New South Wales received state government approval last week.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-25T21:13:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sunraysia-solar-project.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"381\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Sunraysia Solar Farm Gets Green Light\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-25T21:13:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":424,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/sunraysia-solar-farm-mb0095\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/sunraysia-solar-project.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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