Infigen and Suntech scale down to 35MW of Australian PV

Australian PV is getting smaller

Australia’s Infigen Energy confirms it is in talks with the country’s new renewables funding body over a 35MW PV project instead of the 150MW originally planned under the defunct Solar Flagships scheme.

Renewable power specialist Infigen and Chinese PV supplier Suntech failed to win funding to build the larger plant under Australia’s previous support regime.

The partners have taken the scaled-down 35MW proposal to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena), which now controls all federal renewables support, confirms chief executive Miles George in an interview published on Infigen's website.

Infigen and Suntech want to build the project on the site of the Capital wind farm, where a grid link is already in place.

That will also be the site of an energy storage initiative…

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