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A solar hot water panel and integrated tank on a house roof, 2006. The Queensland Government Solar Bonus Scheme was a program that paid domestic and other small energy customers for the surplus electricity generated from roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) systems exported to the Queensland grid. It commenced on 1 July 2008. [39]
The Solar Bonus Scheme ran from 2008 [48] to 2013, and rooftop solar is now in 27% of detached homes in south-east Queensland totalling more than 937MW of solar panels. [49] Over 1/3 of owners now receive 6.4 cents per kilowatt hour for surplus power fed back to the grid, and the remaining still receive the scheme's 44c/kWh. [50]
The Ross River Solar Farm is a solar farm 20 kilometres (km) south of Townsville in North Queensland, Australia. It is located 1 km from the Ross River Dam. The site has an average of 320 days of sunshine annually. [1] It has a generating capacity of 116 megawatts. It utilizes 413,280 panels on a single-axis tracking system across 202 hectares.
The Sun Metals Solar Farm is a photovoltaic solar power station near Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland. It supplies some of the electricity consumed by the nearby Sun Metals (a subsidiary of Korea Zinc ) zinc refinery as well as exporting to the National Electricity Market .
The 100 MW Clare Solar Farm, located 35 km southwest of Ayr in north Queensland, began exporting to the grid in May 2018. [98] The 50 MW AC Kidston Solar Project has been built on the site of the Kidston Gold Mine. This is phase 1 of a planned solar energy and pumped storage combination. Kidston is owned by Genex Power and was constructed by UGL.
Oakey 1 (25MW) started exporting to the grid in March 2019. [92] Oakey 2 (55MW) had not started exporting to the grid as of July 2019. [93] Paget Solar Farm: BOMA Group 20 Announced [94] Qunaba Solar Farm: PB Enertec Pry Ltd
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The Clare Solar Farm is a solar farm located 35 kilometres south-west of Ayr at Clare in North Queensland, Australia. The 125 megawatt DC power station is owned by Lighthouse Solar. [1] Construction commenced in 2016 [2] and was complete by May 2018. It features 393,300 single-axis tracking panels spread over 300 hectares. [3]