Green Electricity

 

I love the vistas and landscapes of New England. And, here's a picture I took four days ago looking northwards to Mount Duval.

Two days later I took another picture of Mount Duval from much further away. This time I was with two friends combing the countryside for an electricity farm located near Uralla (c. 21 km south of Armidale). And what we saw took our breath away. Take a look at these mind-boggling statistics. This new development will typically deliver 720 megawatts per day and 1.8 million megawatt hours per annum. It will contribute to reducing greenhouse omissions by 1.5 million tonnes, which is like taking 300,000 cars off the road. And it will power no less than 250,000 homes. Not bad, eh! Even more amazingly, our region (Northern Tablelands) has 80,000 people and possibly has 35,000 houses. In other words, this bunch of solar panels will support 7 times our region's population. As you can see, these panels cover square kilometers.

And, a day later, we were surprised to hear that this solar farm had been officially opened. The day we were there, it still seemed to be under construction.

All up this is likely a great benefit to our region in terms of cheaper electricity, jobs created for constrruction and maintenance, and ... potentially better grazing country for sheep. New England is a renewable energy hub in NSW and a big step forward. Around New England we're also en route to a stack of major wind farms, many other electric panel generation locations and pumped hydro. We'll soon be exporting electricity to a wide range of territory.

See more at: www.newenglandsolar.com.au

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