Gullen Solar Farm

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The Gullen Solar Farm project is a 10 megawatt (MW) solar farm co located with Gullen Range Wind Farm 30km north west of Goulburn in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The Gullen Solar Farm project is expected to demonstrate to the Australian renewable energy industry the benefits of co-located wind and solar generation, particularly the economic benefits that can be achieved from wind-solar co-location, including from leveraging existing infrastructure, such as network connection, roads, O&M (operation and maintenance) team, and communications systems.There is huge potential to adopt this approach at other wind farms, as identified in this ARENA-supported study. The study found an estimated 1000MW of potential opportunities to add solar photovoltaic (PV) alongside existing wind farms.The 165.5MW Gullen Range Wind Farm has been operational since 2014. Analysis of the output of the wind farm shows there is spare capacity that could be utilised by additional generation from solar. This would better utilise existing grid connection assets.

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