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MUNICH, Germany and MELBOURNE, Australia, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Global renewable energy developer, operator and distributor, BayWa r.e. has announced that its newest 106 MW solar farm in Australia has been successfully connected to the grid. Solar farm Yatpool (copyright BayWa r.e.)
Construction of the 630-acre Yatpool solar farm in North Victoria, was completed in late 2019. With 350,000 solar PV panels, the site is capable of generating enough renewable electricity to power around 40,000 homes.
Yatpool took just 10 months to be built, however there was an 18-month delay between the end of construction and final commissioning. These delays were driven by complicated grid congestion challenges in the North West Murray region of the National Electricity Market grid. Challenges I’m pleased to say we were able to overcome to get the site connected, said Fleur Yaxley, Managing Director, BayWa r.e. Projects Australia Pty Ltd.
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Global renewable energy developer, operator and distributor, BayWa r.e. has announced that its newest 106 MW solar farm in Australia has been successfully connected to the grid.
Construction of the 630-acre Yatpool solar farm in North Victoria, was completed in late 2019. With 350 000 solar PV panels, the site is capable of generating enough renewable electricity to power around 40 000 homes.
“Yatpool took just 10 months to be built, however there was an 18-month delay between the end of construction and final commissioning. These delays were driven by complicated grid congestion challenges in the North West Murray region of the National Electricity Market grid. Challenges I’m pleased to say we were able to overcome to get the site connected,” said Fleur Yaxley, Managing Director, BayWa r.e. Projects Australia Pty Ltd.
German developer BayWa RE has confirmed its 106MW Yatpool solar farm in northern Victoria, in Australia, has been connected to the grid.
Construction at the site, which comprises 350,000 solar PV panels, was completed in late 2019 after a 10-month build.
Baywa RE said “complicated grid congestion challenges” in the region meant that there was an 18-month delay between the end of construction and final commissioning of the project.
BayWa’s Australian managing director Fleur Yaxley said: “This is our third major solar development in Australia and marks another step forward in supporting the country’s renewable energy goals.
“We have an offtake agreement for Yatpool’s output with business energy retailer Flow Power, a reflection of the growing appetite for corporate renewable power purchase agreements.