{"id":1942,"date":"2012-09-09T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T09:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:53:01","slug":"act-solar-power-facility-not-just-hot-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-solar-power-facility-not-just-hot-air\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT solar power facility not just hot air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1945\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/act-solar-power-facility-not-just-hot-air\/solar-farm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1945\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1945\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1945\" title=\"solar-farm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/solar-farm.jpg\" alt=\"solar farm built by FRV\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Spanish hombres, FRV, are bringing a solar farm like this to Royalla in ACT.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you thought our nation\u2019s capital was best known for its dodgy laws, war memorials and pollies\u2019 hot air, you\u2019ll need to think again. This last week has seen the ACT Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell, position the ACT as the country\u2019s solar power capital.<\/p>\n<p>How so? Did Mr Corbell move Canberra a little closer to the sun, Icarus-style? Well sort of, with the announcement this week that Spanish renewables firm Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) is to build a 20MW solar power facility, to be named Royalla, in the District of Tuggeranong.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ACT Government\u2019s 5th Sept press release confirmed that the new power station will be the largest solar power facility built in Australia to date.<\/p>\n<p>Fairly impressive don\u2019t you think folks? Mr Corbell agrees and holds nothing back in his announcement of the agreement with Fotowatio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an important day for Canberra, and I am proud that the ACT Labor Government is delivering on its promise to make Canberra, Australia&#8217;s solar capital,&#8221; Mr Corbell said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This reverse auction process has delivered a solar facility that will produce enough renewable electricity to power approximately 4,400 Canberra homes at a cost of 25c per week per household or $13 per year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>However in what may be the clincher for ACT households, Mr Corbell went on to say that the cheap renewable electricity made available by the solar power facility is expected to (&#8230;drum roll) get even cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, we expect this already low cost to reduce further as the wholesale price of electricity rises, and for the cost per household to reduce to approximately $9.50 per year by 2020,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Word is the facility will help in the ACT government\u2019s aim to make Canberra a completely sustainable city. Obviously if this could be linked to a method to harness the excess hot air in Canberra during Parliamentary sitting days, Canberra could well become the Australian energy powerhouse!<\/p>\n<p>Cheap shot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought our nation\u2019s capital was best known for its dodgy laws, war memorials and pollies\u2019 hot air, you\u2019ll need to think again. This last week has seen the ACT Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell, position the ACT as the country\u2019s solar power capital. How so? 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Luckily a solar milestone flashed by our radar last week which drives yet another nail into the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economics Of Solar&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economics Of Solar","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/category\/economics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"a banker by a solar farm","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/banker.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/banker.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/banker.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27378,"url":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/bluewater-solar-farm-mb0911\/","url_meta":{"origin":1942,"position":4},"title":"Townsville City Council Approval For Bluewater Solar Farm","author":"Michael Bloch","date":"January 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Things are looking good for FRV's Bluewater Solar Farm project near Townsville in Queensland, but there are still some hurdles it will need to clear. 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Metz Solar Farm is a 115 MWac clean power station to be constructed at a site near Hillgrove, approximately 20 kilometres east of Armidale. 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