The 102MW Nyngan plant and 53MW Broken Hill facility can proceed after securing A$166.7m ($150.6m) from Australia’s renewables support agency Arena and A$64.9m from the New South Wales government, towards a total project cost of about A$450m.
The two represent Australia's biggest solar project to date.
Construction of Nyngan is expected to commence in January 2014, with completion scheduled by mid-2015. Building at Broken Hill will start in July 2014 and is due to be completed around November 2015.
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