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Australian big solar PPAs heading to $75/MWh, says ARENA
Contracts for large scale solar farms in Australia heading to $70-75/MWh for projects starting construction in 2018.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 3, 2017

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Solar

CEFC tips another $70m into big solar, as market confidence soars
Clean Energy Finance Corporation backs three more big solar projects in Queensland and Victoria, as ERM finally unveils its first major renewable off take deal.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 13, 2017

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Queensland govt underwrites 98MW of large-scale solar farms
Queensland’s Palaszczuk government signs support deeds for three new large-scale solar PV projects totaling almost 100MW.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 6, 2017

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Solar

Graph of the Day: Big solar nears 100GW of installed capacity
A record year for large-scale solar in 2016 with almost 35GW new capacity added globally, leaving total installed just shy of 100GW.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 3, 2017

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Solar

Victoria unveils first large-scale solar auction
Andrews govt launches tender for up to 75MW new solar capacity in north-west Victoria, some of which will power Melbourne tram network.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 3, 2017

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Solar

Big solar market headed for “huge” 2017, as costs continue to plunge
Climate Council confirms solar now cheapest new power generation, predicts huge year for big solar – not to mention solar and battery storage.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 23, 2017

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Solar

Victoria ends Big Solar drought with 320MW new capacity by 2018
Work set to begin on three 100MW solar farms near Mildura – the state’s largest, and possibly first, large-scale projects.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 20, 2017

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Solar

Sun Brilliance gets approval for WA’s biggest solar plant
Australia’s first “merchant” solar plant set to go ahead, after the 100MW WA project won local development approval.
Jonathan Gifford

Dec 12, 2016

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CleanTech Bites

Kidston solar farm set for construction, chalking up win for ARENA
Genex Power will begin construction of the solar array at its Kidston pumped hydro project after securing debt and ARENA funding.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 2, 2016

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Solar

Connection costs down for new large-scale solar – but why?
ARENA’s large-scale solar funding round revealed projected connection costs noticeably lower than for existing projects. Why is it so?
Ketan Joshi Chris Twomey Olivia Boyd

Nov 9, 2016

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Featured

ARENA announces large scale solar grant winners, 480MW in total
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency today announced the 12 large scale projects that won grants in what could be the agency’s last major funding round if most of its remaining monies are stripped by the Coalition and Labor parties.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 8, 2016

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Solar

12 large scale solar projects to get ARENA funding. And the winners are …
More than half the shortlisted large-scale solar projects expected to get funding from ARENA tender. A total of 12 projects, mostly with single axis tracking technology and costs as low as $100/MWh are expected to win grants, with solar module costs set to slump again next year.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 7, 2016

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