Once complete the port augusta renewable energy park is projected to produce approximately 900 gwh per annum enough to power around 180 000 households each year with an emissions saving of approximately 400 000 metric tonnes of co2 annually.
Port augusta renewable energy park.
The project has changed its name to bluebush solar as it is no longer linked to the port augusta renewable energy park.
Work is set to commence in the second quarter of 2018 with an estimated 250 jobs to be created during the construction phase and peaking to about 600 jobs at the height of the development.
Dp energy submitted a development application to the south australian state commission assessment panel and received sa government approval for the project in july 2018.
The port augusta renewable energy park is located on a 5 400 hectare site that runs from port paterson in the north to winninowie in the south.
Renewables boom boosts port augusta.
The port augusta renewable energy park project will be located on the coastal plain south east of port augusta in south australia incorporating both wind turbines and solar photovoltaic pv modules and will occupy approximately 5400 hectares of land running from port paterson in the north to winninowie in the south and spanning highway one.
The port augusta renewable energy park is a unique hybrid renewable energy development integrating wind and solar pv technology.
Thirteen renewable energy projects are underway or under consideration from wind farms and pumped hydro electric power to solar with storage that can shift.
Iberdrola group is working on what will be its first large renewable energy development in australia.
The port augusta renewable energy park is proposed to be a large wind farm and solar farm south of port augusta in south australia australia the solar farm is planned to be at the northern end of the site west of the augusta highway and immediately south of sundrop farms the wind turbines will be on both sides of the augusta highway extending south as far as the road to horrocks pass.
Our first big renewables project in the australian market.
The port augusta complex.
Port augusta project port augusta.
This is a hybrid facility which will include a wind farm and a photovoltaic plant providing a total installed capacity of.