{"id":27777,"date":"2019-02-07T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27777"},"modified":"2024-09-05T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:07:43","slug":"carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/","title":{"rendered":"Go- Ahead For Carisbrook Solar Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"Carisbrook Solar Farm\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm-1024x542.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nVictoria&#8217;s Central Goldfields Shire Council has granted a planning permit for the Carisbrook Solar Farm project, which will incorporate energy storage.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The clean power station is proposed for a 300-hectare site located approximately six kilometres east of the township of Carisbrook, which is around 67 kilometres from Bendigo by road.<\/p>\n<p>The 90MW facility is to feature a quarter of a million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/\">solar panels<\/a> mounted on single axis trackers and will generate 150,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity each year <a href=\"https:\/\/carisbrooksolarfarm.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> developer Ib Vogt.\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t seem correct &#8211; perhaps the company meant 150,000 megawatt-hours (150 gigawatt-hours).<\/p>\n<p>A lithium-ion battery storage element will be incorporated in the project, but there&#8217;s no mention as to capacity. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralgoldfields.vic.gov.au\/files\/sharedassets\/public\/planning\/major-planning-applications\/carisbrook-solar-farm\/20180926-094-18-planning-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning report mentions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The battery container and DC\/DC Converter housing will be approximately 16.192m long and 2.438m wide and will have a height of 2.591m. There will also be up to twenty seven of these units at the site.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solar farm will connect to the mains grid via an existing 66kv transmission line running along the western edge of the site.<\/p>\n<p>Around 240 jobs are expected to be created during the construction phase, which is expected to last 9 months according to Council (12 &#8211; 14 months according to Ib Vogt). The company says 60 per cent of the workers required will be from the local area.<\/p>\n<p>Central Goldfields Shire Chief Administrator Noel Harvey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centralgoldfields.vic.gov.au\/Council\/News-Media\/Council-issues-Notices-of-Decision-to-Grant-Planning-Permits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commented<\/a> that granting the planning permit was a difficult decision as there were concerns over the impact to farming properties and houses within the area.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCouncil needed to carefully weigh up state and local policies that recognise the significance of agricultural land and state policy requiring us to facilitate appropriate development of energy supply infrastructure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site is currently used for cropping and\u00a0 grazing activities and Ib Vogt says assuming the project goes ahead, sheep will be able to graze among the solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated cost of the development is $110 million and the solar farm has an expected service life of 25 to 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>Germany-headquartered Ib Vogt says it has been involved with solar energy developments since 2002 and has developed or constructed over 900MW of projects in Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Carisbrook won&#8217;t be its first solar farm in Australia &#8211; that was the 11.1 MWp\u00a0 plant at Williamsdale in the ACT, which was energised in November 2016. Judging by the firm&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibvogt.com\/projects\/#projects\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">portfolio page<\/a>, the Carisbrook project could be its biggest PV facility to date and the company states it has a pipeline of other PV projects in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria&#8217;s Central Goldfields Shire Council has granted a planning permit for the Carisbrook Solar Farm project, which will incorporate energy storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27778,"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-27777","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 v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Go- Ahead For Carisbrook Solar Farm - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s Central Goldfields Shire Council has granted a planning permit for the Carisbrook Solar Farm project, which will incorporate battery storage.\" \/>\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\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go- Ahead For Carisbrook Solar Farm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Victoria&#039;s Central Goldfields Shire Council has granted a planning permit for the Carisbrook Solar Farm project, which will incorporate battery storage.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-02-06T19:15:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-05T00:07:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"635\" \/>\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\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Go- Ahead For Carisbrook Solar Farm\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-06T19:15:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-05T00:07:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/\"},\"wordCount\":419,\"commentCount\":8,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/carisbrook-solar-farm-mb0929\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/carisbrook-solar-farm.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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