{"id":16798,"date":"2017-11-16T07:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2017-11-16T07:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:39:39","slug":"northern-territory-solar-mb0307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\/","title":{"rendered":"More Big Solar Planned For The Northern Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16800\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northern-territory-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Solar power in Australia's Northern Territory\" width=\"700\" height=\"480\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/solar-panel-solar-panels-renewable-1595566\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ThePictureBox<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>2018 could be the year large-scale solar really starts to make its presence felt in the Northern Territory, with at least two major projects in the works.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rimfire Group has announced plans to build a 10MW solar farm nearly Batchelor, 100 kilometres south of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installers\/darwin\/\">Darwin<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntnews.com.au\/business\/rimfire-to-build-largest-solar-array-in-nt-to-send-cheap-power-into-darwinkatherine-grid\/news-story\/6acd94ba9aa64a709af7823e5f337cc3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NT News<\/a> (paywall), the $16 million project is to be constructed on land leased from Territory Property Group. Power generated by the proposed facility will be sold through Rimfire Group\u2019s subsidiary, Rimfire Energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rimfireenergy.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rimfire Energy<\/a> has been operating as a commercial electricity retailer in the Northern Territory since 2014. Originally focused on large commercial customers, the company has expanded into selling electricity to a select group of small business and residential customers.<\/p>\n<p>NT News says the 10MW project would be the largest solar farm in the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the project goes ahead and is completed very soon, it may not hold that title for long.<\/p>\n<h2>Katherine Solar Farm Progress<\/h2>\n<p>Early this month, Katherine Solar Pty Ltd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utilicom.nt.gov.au\/PMS\/Publications\/UC-APP-LIC-Katherine%20Solar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed an application<\/a> (PDF) for a generation license associated with a 25 MW AC solar photovoltaic facility (32MW DC) to be constructed at a site approximately 5 km of Katherine, near the Stuart Highway.<\/p>\n<p>All generation output from the facility, an expected 70 gigawatt-hours a year, will be exported via a direct connection to Power &amp; Water Corporation\u2019s 132 \/ 22kV Katherine Zone Substation.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Solar Farm is to be comprised of solar panels mounted on single axis trackers to increase yield.<\/p>\n<p>The project secured a development permit in February this year and is targeted for construction in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Solar Pty Ltd is 50% owned by Epuron Projects Pty Ltd and 50% owned by IGP Solar PV Plant Number 3 Limited (Island GP).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epuron.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epuron<\/a> is no stranger to PV &#8211; the company has been developing solar and wind energy projects in Australia since 2003. Among its other significant PV projects in the Territory are Yulara (1.8MW), Uterne (4.1MW), Ti Tree (323kW), Lake Nash (272kW) and Kalkarindji (408kW). The latter three installations formed the TKLN project, which supplies three of Australia&#8217;s most remote aboriginal townships with essential power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandgp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Island GP<\/a> is a UK company that has developed more than 20 solar projects in the UK and Europe. The company has 150 MW operating capacity in its portfolio and 30 MW currently under construction.<\/p>\n<h2>NT Roadmap To Renewables Report Still MIA<\/h2>\n<p>The Northern Territory\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/renewable-energy-northern-territory-mb0089\/\">Economic Development Framework<\/a> report released in June this year stated solar power to be the most promising way to reach the State Government&#8217;s renewable energy target of 50% by 2030. An important step towards achieving that goal is the <a href=\"https:\/\/roadmaptorenewables.nt.gov.au\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roadmap to Renewables<\/a> report, which was to be presented to the NT Government in mid-2017 but is yet to materialise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 could be the year large-scale solar really starts to make its presence felt in the Northern Territory, with at least two major projects in the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16800,"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-16798","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>More Big Solar Planned For The Northern Territory - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2018 could be the year large-scale solar really starts to make its presence felt in the Northern Territory, with at least two major projects in the works.\" \/>\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\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Big Solar Planned For The Northern Territory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2018 could be the year large-scale solar really starts to make its presence felt in the Northern Territory, with at least two major projects in the works.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\/\" \/>\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=\"2017-11-15T20:39:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/northern-territory-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\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\\\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"More Big Solar Planned For The Northern Territory\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-15T20:39:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":459,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/northern-territory-solar-mb0307\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/northern-territory-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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