{"id":31873,"date":"2019-07-10T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=31873"},"modified":"2019-07-10T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:15:37","slug":"benger-solar-farm-mb1127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Solar Near Bunbury, WA &#8211; Benger Solar Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Benger Solar Farm\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solar energy developer South Energy recently held a community information session regarding its proposed Benger Solar Farm project, which is to be located in WA&#8217;s Harvey Shire.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Occupying around 187 hectares of land at a site approximately 20 kilometres north-east of Bunbury,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bengersolar.com.au\/\">Benger Solar Farm<\/a> has a proposed capacity of\u00a0 ~100 megawatts (AC) and will avoid somewhere in the region of 210,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year over its expected 30-year lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>An information session for the project was held last Thursday in Brunswick, which is situated between Bunbury and Harvey.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;South Energy understands the importance of community engagement to ensure that local opinions, perspectives and ideas are heard and considered by this project,&#8221; said the company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Council appears to be supportive of the project at this point, with Harvey Shire president Tania Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/thewest.com.au\/news\/harvey-waroona-reporter\/solar-farm-proposed-ng-b881250751z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling the West Australian<\/a> the venture was potentially a very exciting development for her area.<\/p>\n<p>Benger would be the first really big solar energy project for the Shire<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/#en-31873-1' id='enref-31873-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(31873)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, but small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> is already very popular in the region &#8211; around 33% of dwellings have panels installed (Source: APVI)<\/p>\n<p>South Energy says assuming certain milestones are achieved and approvals secured, it expects to commence construction in 2020,\u00a0 with full operation slated for 2022. The construction phase of the project will require at least 250 workers. Other economic benefits for the region include an as yet unspecified portion of the project\u2019s revenue being allocated for community use each year.<\/p>\n<p>South Energy has a <a href=\"https:\/\/southenergy.com.au\/projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of other PV projects<\/a> in its pipeline over in Victoria, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raywood (Loddon Shire): 200MW<\/li>\n<li>Goorambat (Benalla): 75MW<\/li>\n<li>Kennedy&#8217;s Creek (Benalla area): up to 145MW<\/li>\n<li>Frasers (Toongabbie area): up to 75MW<\/li>\n<li>Lake Makoan <sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/#en-31873-2' id='enref-31873-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(31873)'>2<\/a><\/sup> (Benalla area): up to 115MW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Benger included, that adds up to potentially 710MW (assumed AC) of large scale solar power capacity for South Energy, all of which the company hopes to have up and running by the end of 2022. That being the case, the firm has a very busy few years ahead of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar energy developer South Energy recently held a community information session regarding its proposed Benger Solar Farm project, which is to be located in WA&#8217;s Harvey Shire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":31874,"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-31873","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>Big Solar Near Bunbury, Western Australia - Benger Solar Farm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Solar energy developer South Energy recently held a community information session regarding its proposed Benger Solar Farm project in Harvey Shire.\" \/>\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\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Solar Near Bunbury, WA - Benger Solar Farm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Solar energy developer South Energy recently held a community information session regarding its proposed Benger Solar Farm project in Harvey Shire.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/\" \/>\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=\"2019-07-09T20:15:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/south-energy-solar.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\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\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/benger-solar-farm-mb1127\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Big Solar Near Bunbury, WA &#8211; 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