Australia’s best performing wind and solar farms in October

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Tasmania wind farms have taken most of the top places in the ranks of best performing wind farms in the month of October, although one of the country’s northern most wind farms has also ranked highly.

The monthly charts of best performing wind and solar facilities has been released by Rystad Energy, and this month it is topped by Woolnorth in Tasmania, with Granville Harbour and Cattle Hill in the same state also performing well.

The other strong performing wind farms were scattered around the country, with the Kennedy energy park in north Queensland finishing second, Crowlands in Vitoria finishing fourth, and Flat Rocks in Western Australia also performing well.

In the solar side, the results were more predictable, given the season, with all but two of the top 20 solar assets based in NSW and Queensland. The Griffith solar farm was best ranking solar asset, followed by the Blue Grass , Columboola and Edenvale solar farms in Queensland.

The only two in the top 20 from different stages were Gannawarra in Victoria, and Greenough River – Australia’s very first large scale solar farm – in Western Australia.

Source: Rystad Energy.

See also: Australia reaches record monthly renewable share of 47.4 per cent, and poised to leap further ahead

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor-in-chief of Renew Economy, and founder and editor of its EV-focused sister site The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

Giles Parkinson

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor-in-chief of Renew Economy, and founder and editor of its EV-focused sister site The Driven. He is the co-host of the weekly Energy Insiders Podcast. Giles has been a journalist for more than 40 years and is a former deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review. You can find him on LinkedIn and on Twitter.

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