{"id":58772,"date":"2022-02-09T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=58772"},"modified":"2022-02-09T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:38:03","slug":"moura-solar-farm-mb2348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Solar Energy Boost For Banana Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm.jpg\" alt=\"Moura Solar Farm - Banana Shire, Queensland\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Queensland&#8217;s Banana Shire will soon be home to a 110MW solar farm &#8211; the first major PV project for the region.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Situated between the township of Moura and Banana in Central Queensland, construction of Moura Solar Farm is expected to be completed around August this year and in the meantime will provide a big employment boost for the local economy, with up to 250 jobs during construction.<\/p>\n<p>Originally an ESCO Pacific project, it was acquired by Greece-based industrial company Mytilineos in late 2020.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mytilineos\u2019 decision to develop the Moura Solar farm here is another example of business looking for outstanding opportunities to grow and prosper and the Banana Shire can provide that,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banana.qld.gov.au\/news\/article\/363\/new-solar-farm-shines-a-light-on-banana-shire-s-exciting-economic-growth\">said<\/a> Banana Shire Deputy Mayor Cr Colin Semple. &#8220;Spread over 28,000 square kilometres, our Shire provides a mix of agricultural land, a budding new tourism hub, mining and construction opportunities, so it makes perfect sense to do business here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will be the first solar farm for Banana Shire &#8211; in fact, it appears to be the first large-scale solar in the local government area. While there are more than 2,000 solar installations in the region with a combined capacity heading towards 12MW, these are all home and commercial systems below 100kW capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Moura Solar Farm&#8217;s development footprint is approximately 203 hectares of land previously used for cattle grazing. The site was chosen for its abundant solar resources, proximity to Powerlink&#8217;s transmission network and easy access from Dawson Highway. Construction works by Powerlink for the connection aspect of the project commenced in May\u00a02021 and were completed late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Even before it cranks its first megawatt-hour, more than half of Moura Solar Farm&#8217;s output is already spoken for through a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Queensland Government-owned CS Energy Limited. The 56 MW of generation contracted to CS Energy has been onsold to an unnamed large industrial customer.<\/p>\n<h2>Mytilineos In Australia<\/h2>\n<p>Mytilineos considers Australia a key market its global renewables development strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The company has built up a significant portfolio of solar projects in Australia since it acquired its first bundle here back in 2019, which was a total of six projects in New South Wales and Queensland including Corowa, Junee and Wagga Solar Farms.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time it has also acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/wyalongsolarfarm.com.au\/\">Wyalong Solar Farm<\/a> in NSW that Mytilineos<span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0says &#8220;will produce about 75\u00a0watt\u00a0of energy&#8221; &#8211; which is obviously a typo mixed with confusion between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/good-solar-guide\/power-energy-difference\/\">power and energy<\/a>. Wyalong is a 75MW<\/span> facility and was originally another ESCO Pacific project acquired by Mytilineos in late 2020. This project also came with a long-term PPA in place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear the total capacity in Mytilineos&#8217; Australian stable currently, but at the end of December 2020 it stood at 400MW.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s website, it has a current pipeline of projects exceeding 1.9 GW worldwide and has completed more than 1.5 GW of solar farms and 400 MW of energy storage projects through its <span lang=\"EN-US\">Renewables\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Storage Development Business Unit,<\/span> operated by subsidiary <span lang=\"EN-US\">METKA EGN.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland&#8217;s Banana Shire will soon be home to a 110MW solar farm &#8211; the first major PV project for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":58773,"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-58772","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>A Big Solar Energy Boost For Banana Shire - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Queensland&#039;s Banana Shire will soon be home to a 110MW solar farm - the first major PV project for the region.\" \/>\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\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Big Solar Energy Boost For Banana Shire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Queensland&#039;s Banana Shire will soon be home to a 110MW solar farm - the first major PV project for the region.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-02-08T20:38:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/moura-solar-farm.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\\\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"A Big Solar Energy Boost For Banana Shire\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-08T20:38:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":500,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/moura-solar-farm-mb2348\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/moura-solar-farm.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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Not quite. But Byron Shire Council's proposed solar farm project for Myocum just moved another step closer. For such a comparatively small utility-scale solar farm, the project has had quite a journey to date. 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The proposed project is to be situated around 75km south of Rockhampton and 40km north of Biloela. 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