Featured in Technology Highlights 2017 – 04-2017

A record breaking year for solar

At one point, it looked as though 2016 would be an abysmal year for solar Down Under, but in many respects, it was a total record breaker. These charts, provided to pv magazine by Australian solar consultants Sunwiz will demonstrate a few of the highlights.

Although the headline utility-scale figures show a major drop off, it was always going to be impossible to fill the gap left by Australia’s largest PV power plants Nyngan (102 MW), Broken Hill (53 MW) and Moree (70 MW) projects, which came online in 2015, but were five years in the making and heavily subsidized …

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