Collinsville Solar Farm

Project overview

Lead Organisation
RATCH Australia Corporation Limited
Location
Collinsville, Queensland
ARENA Program
Advancing Renewables Program
Start date
1 April 2017
End date
27 February 2022
Project Partners
None
This solar project was completed on 27 February 2022.

Summary

The Collinsville Solar Farm Project will develop a 42.5MW (AC) solar photovoltaic (PV) farm.

How the project works

The Collinsville Solar Farm project by RATCH Australia is one of 12 large-scale solar PV projects supported by ARENA to increase the nation’s experience in planning and building large scale solar PV and making it more competitive by increasing confidence and building supply chains. Once complete, the 12 projects are expected to triple the amount of electricity produced from big solar in Australia and unlock almost $1 billion of commercial investment in the technology.

Area of innovation

At the time of funding, the large-scale solar PV industry in Australia was in its infancy. The 12 new large-scale projects will change this by adding almost 500MW of new generation, powering 150,000 average Australian homes.

This project consists of:

Project Knowledge

Project reports

Contact

Name: Hugh Sangster
Email: Hugh.sangster@ratchaustralia.com
Phone: +61 (02) 8913 9404

Last updated
27 July 2022

Learn more

Reports: The Generator Operations Series

In 2016, when the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) launched the $100 million Large-scale Solar funding round, renewable energy (particularly solar) constituted a very small fraction of the energy mix.

Video: Collinsville Solar Farm

The project is one of 12 large-scale solar PV projects supported by ARENA to increase the nation’s experience in planning and building large scale solar PV and making it more competitive by increasing confidence and building supply chains.

Benefit

By supporting Collinsville Solar Farm and other large-scale solar projects, ARENA is making the benefits of solar available to more Australian energy consumers. It is anticipated that the Project will generate enough energy to power some 13,000 average Australian homes.

The cost trajectory of large-scale solar PV has seen the technology become competitive without additional support.The competitive round was critical in supporting this outcome by helping to close the cost gap that existed between large-scale solar PV and other commercially competitive forms of power generation, including wind energy.

ARENA will be sharing knowledge from the Large Scale Solar competitive round projects on a range of topics, from construction techniques, solar forecasting and capital costs, to Operations and Maintenance (O&M) practices and grid impacts.

Collinsville Solar Farm project