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Gridlock grips Australia’s PV developers

Australia’s large-scale solar boom faces serious constraints in the form of a long and skinny electricity network – making some ideal sites unattractive to project developers. Legacy regulations and a lack of transparency have also caused last-minute roadblocks and costly delays for developers.

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Natalie Filatoff

16 Sep 2019

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How did transmission capacity and connection to the electrical grid become the biggest obstacles to Australia’s supercharged push toward a renewable-energy future? With Rystad Energy estimating that 70 GW of large-scale renewables are in the pipeline, falling solar costs bumping aging coal generators off the map, and financiers jumping on board, it all seemed to …

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