Australia's largest solar farm has been given approval
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@ Nov 4th 2013 2:41pm
- By Garry Larden
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Australia's largest solar farm has been given the go-ahead, the 20-megawatt Royalla solar farm will be built on land beside the Monaro Highway in Tuggeranong, bounded to the west by the Rob Roy Nature Reserve.
The solar farm proposal will contribute to a reduction of around 560,000 tonnes of carbon emissions over 20 years, generating the equivalent amount of energy to power 4400 Canberra homes.
The Royalla solar farm will directly contribute to meeting the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets set by the ACT government.
This is another positive step by Australia to move towards a greener, cleaner future…
The search for modern cities that are making the transition to genuine energy sustainability usually begins in Europe, where some cities in Scandinavia and Germany now run their energy grids completely free of coal.
But a more direct comparison to Australia's cities is found on the US west coast’s San Francisco has pursued an aggressive program of installing renewable energy on its municipal buildings and is well down the path of switching from being a fossil-fuelled city to a renewable one.
The city was one of the first to set a goal of fulfilling 100 per cent of the city's electricity needs through renewable energy and overall, 41 per cent of San Francisco's electricity already comes from renewable energy, including large hydro, and the city is aiming to move this up to 100 per cent by 2020 without using new large hydro.
