Origin is an Australian listed public energy company with headquarters in Sydney. It is an Australian Stock Exchange publicly listed company.
Collinsville Power Station is located south of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It had five coal powered steam turbines with a combined generation capacity of 190 MW of electricity. A solar power farm generating 42MW has been built on adjacent land.
Wind power in Australia is a mode of production of renewable electricity in Australia. Wind power is a rapidly expanding mode of renewable energy in Australia with an average annual rate of growth in installed capacity of 35% over the five years up to 2011. As of July 2018, there were 5,114 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity and a further 19,635 MW of capacity was proposed or committed. In 2017, wind power accounted for 5.7% of Australia's total electricity demand and 33.8% of total renewable energy supply. At the end of 2017 there were 85 wind farms in Australia, most of which had turbines from 1.5 to 3 MW. In addition, 14 projects with a combined installed capacity of 1,936 MW are either under construction or committed to be built in 2018 having reached financial closure.
AGL Energy Ltd is an Australian listed public company involved in both the generation and retailing of electricity and gas for residential and commercial use.
Solar power in Australia is a growing industry. As of September 2018, Australia had over 10,131 MW of installed photovoltaic (PV) solar power, of which 3,366 MW were installed in the preceding 12 months. In 2017, 23 solar PV projects with a combined installed capacity of 2,034 MW were either under construction, constructed or due to start construction having reached financial closure. PV accounted for 3.8% of Australia's electrical energy production in 2017.
Renewable energy in Australia deals with efforts that have been and continue to be made in Australia to quantify and expand the use of renewable energy in the generation of electricity, as fuel in transport and in thermal energy. Renewable energy is created through electricity generation using renewable sources, such as wind, hydro, landfill gas, geothermal, solar PV and solar thermal.
The Windorah Solar Farm is Ergon Energy's first solar farm trial near the town of Windorah in Queensland. The plant uses five concentrated solar dishes or reflectors which were manufactured and installed by Solar Systems. This is expected to save up to 100,000 litres of diesel fuel per year. The integration of solar farm and diesel power is a first for Ergon Energy.
Energy in Australia is the production in Australia of energy and electricity, for consumption or export. Energy policy of Australia describes the politics of Australia as it relates to energy.
The electricity sector in Australia is historically dominated by coal-fired power stations, but renewables are forming a rapidly growing fraction of supply.
Kennedy Energy Park is a proposed wind, solar and storage hybrid power station to be located approximately 20 km south east of Hughenden and 290 km southwest of Townsville in Queensland.
The Bungala Solar Power Project is a solar power farm in Emeroo and Wami Kata near Port Augusta in South Australia. Stage One was connected to the grid in May 2018. The second and final stage was connected to the grid in early November 2018. It is expected to be completed and the two stages together able to deliver 220MW of electric power to the national grid from November 2018. It is being developed on 800 hectares of land which was previously used as an ostrich farm, sheep and cattle station and is owned by the Bungala Aboriginal Corporation, a community employment and social services organisation. The completed project contributes 220MW to the electricity grid from 275MWdc generation and expects to produce 570 GWh per year.
Gannawarra Solar Farm is a photovoltaic solar power station in the Gannawarra Shire, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of Kerang in the Australian state of Victoria. It generates up to 60 MWdc electricity and exports up to 50.61 MWAC to the National Electricity Market at 66 kV.
The Sun Metals Solar Farm is a photovoltaic solar power station near Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland. It supplies some of the electricity consumed by the nearby Sun Metals zinc refinery as well as exporting to the National Electricity Market. When the Sun Metals Solar Farm started exporting electricity to the grid in May 2018, it took over from Clare Solar Farm as the largest capacity solar farm in Queensland.
Darling Downs Solar Farm is a 110MW photovoltaic solar power station in Queensland, Australia developed by APA Group 45 km west of Dalby in the Darling Downs region next to the Darling Downs Power Station. All of the electricity produced will be sold to Origin Energy until 2030. The solar farm connects to the national electricity grid through Powerlink's Braemar substation. It has approximately 430,000 solar panels on an area of approximately 250 hectares.
The Bannerton Solar Park is a solar power station in the locality of Bannerton southeast of Robinvale in the Sunraysia district of Victoria. It generates up to 88MW of electricity to the National Electricity Market (NEM).
Limondale Solar Farm is a solar farm under construction south of Balranald in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. When it is completed, it will be the largest solar farm in Australia. It is owned by German company Innogy through a subsidiary Belectric Solar and Battery, and is being constructed by Australian engineering company Downer Group.
