Cohuna Solar Farm
Project Update Week ending 23 August 2019 Lightsource BP to begin construction on first Australian solar project in 2019 12 August Lightsource BP, a global industry leader in solar First foundation concrete pour development, is pleased to announce that construction will begin on the company’s first for Granville Harbour Wind Australian project in the coming months. The Farm project was acquired fully permitted from First 16 August Solar. Construction crews onsite at Granville Harbour Wind Farm have successfully The Wellington Solar Farm, at Goolma Road, completed the first concrete pour for one of Wuuluman, New South Wales, will have an the site’s 31 wind turbine foundations. Each installed capacity of 174MWac, producing excavated foundation – big enough to hold an 420,000MWh of clean, renewable electricity a entire MONA ferry – requires over 100 year. The installation will generate enough concrete truck loads to fill the 20-metre energy to power approximately 70,000 homes, diameter base. and will provide a carbon emissions saving of 336,000 tonnes, which is the equivalent of Remaining turbine foundations will be taking around 121,500 cars off the road. completed over the coming months in preparation for the installation of latest A wide range of surveys and assessments technology Vestas wind turbine generators on were undertaken during the development of 137 metre-high towers. the solar farm, covering flooding, fire risk, biodiversity management, traffic planning, Granville Harbour Wind Farm Project Director, noise and visual impact, cultural heritage Lyndon Frearson, said that the successful first management and more. foundation pour was a key achievement for the project: Adam Pegg, Country Manager for Australia at Lightsource BP, commented: “Solar is one of “An enormous amount of preparatory work the fastest growing sources of energy has been done to get the wind farm site to worldwide, and at Lightsource BP we’re proud this point.
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