Southern Hemispheres Largest Solar Power Plant Set To Start

(BLOOMBERG) -- A PROJECT IN THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK THAT WILL MORE THAN DOUBLE THE COUNTRY'S LARGE-SCALE SOLAR OUTPUT SHOULD BEGIN GENERATING ITS INITIAL POWER AS EARLY AS THIS WEEK, ACCORDING TO FIRST SOLAR INC.

The A290 million (220 million) Nyngan solar plant in New South Wales state will start at 25 megawatts before increasing to full capacity of 102 megawatts, said Jack Curtis, Asia-Pacific manager at First Solar, a partner in the project led by AGL Energy Ltd. The plant will be fully operational by July, Sydney-based AGL said last week.

The solar project is expected to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere until a 141-megawatt First Solar project in Chile begins in late 2015, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. AGL and First Solar, the U.S. panel manufacturer, are also building a 53-megawatt solar plant in Broken Hill, west of Nyngan in New South Wales.



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