Two new solar projects join the grid in Victoria and NSW

Two new solar projects have taken an important next step on the road to full operations, entering the Australian Energy Market Operator’s management system that leads to registration and the start of the commissioning process.

The two new projects are the 150 megawatt (MW) Carwarp project in north-west Victoria and the 200 MW Glennellen solar project in the south-west of NSW.

The Carwarp project, owned by Recurrent Energy, now a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, has been a long time in the making, having fallen afoul of both political and curtailment issues through its development phase.

It secured secured a deal from the Victorian government in 2018 that guaranteed revenue for what was then a 100-megawatt (MW) solar park for a period of 15 years, but has now emerged as a solar-battery hybrid project with the storage component to be added after the completion of the solar farm.

It has an off take agreement with an unnamed multinational company.

The Glenellen project, owned by GPG, a subsidiary of Spanish energy company Naturgy, is located 2 kilometres northeast of Jindera in the Riverina region of NSW. It consists of 377,784 solar PV modules and will also be co-located with sheep grazing.

The Glenellen projects is backed by a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Australian telecoms giant Telstra covering 50 per cent of the project’s output, which was signed in September 2024.  

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