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What broke at Oakey

With its high wholesale power prices, attractiveness to capital, wide open spaces and abundant sunshine, there is every reason to believe Australia is a PV project developer’s nirvana. However, as the wreckage at the 55 MW Oakey 2 site in Queensland reveals, challenges under the Australian sun should not be taken lightly.

By

Jonathan Gifford

09 Dec 2019

Image: Supplied on an anonymous basis

Tortured metal, modules lying face down in pools of muddy water, tracker rows twisted like denatured strands of DNA: The sight greeting engineering crews on Oct. 18, 2018, at the Oakey 2 project is the stuff of solar-engineering nightmares. And unfortunately, it’s not a unique case.The 55 MW Oakey 2 project is located in the …

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