The Barcaldine Solar Farm is a solar farm located five kilometres east of the town of Barcaldine in Central Queensland, Australia. The power station is owned by Elecnor and is situated on a 90 hectare site. It will use single-axis tracking technology.[1] The power station can generate 20 megawatts AC.[1] It consists of 78,000 panels.[2]

Power was supplied to the grid in December 2016.[3] It was Queensland's first large scale solar farm.[4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Fact Sheet: Central Queensland solar farm supports rural and remote communities" (PDF). Clean Energy Finance Corporation. December 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  2. "Barcaldine powering the move to big solar across Australia". Australian Renewable Energy Agency. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. Jasmina (15 December 2016). "Barcaldine Solar Farm achieves first generation". Australian Manufacturing. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. Parkinson, Giles (10 October 2017). "Elecnor gets approval to add 50MW to Qld's first solar farm". Retrieved 25 October 2023.

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