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Australia goes big with PV

Australian utility-scale: Big country, big sky, but very few big PV arrays. Australia seems to do everything but solar at scale. The country has some of the highest penetration rates of residential solar: around 5 GW of installed capacity with less than 300 MW of it coming from utility-scale. pv magazine investigates whether a change of Prime Minister could be a breath of fresh air for solar farm development in Australia.

By

Jonathan Gifford

05 Oct 2015

King coal is dead, long live PV. Last month, Australia awoke to its fifth Prime Minister in as many years. Minister for Communications and longtime rival Malcolm Turnbull dethroned Tony Abbott on Monday September 14, after successfully challenging for the leadership of the ruling Liberal Party. And in his first remarks after winning the leadership …

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