Australia

Canberra, Australia - The first section of the Nyngan Solar Plant in western New South Wales is online and feeding renewable energy into the National Electricity Market.

Close to 350,000 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels are producing up to 25 MW of electricity. Once complete, the plant will output up to 102 MW, enough to power 33,000 homes per year.

ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht congratulated AGL and First Solar on the achievement and said the project is paving the way for more large-scale solar plants to be built in Australia.

Source: IWR Online, 23 Mar 2015