{"id":5697,"date":"2017-02-20T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2017-02-20T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T03:40:14","slug":"victorias-first-large-scale-solar-farms-to-begin-construction-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/victorias-first-large-scale-solar-farms-to-begin-construction-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria’s first large-scale solar farms to begin construction in April"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three solar farms, with a combined output of 320 megawatts, are scheduled to be up and running by 2018 in the northwest Victorian towns of Yatpool, Iraak and Wemen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Running at peak capacity, that’s enough electricity to power Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo all at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to The Age work on the $500 million project is set to begin in April, and will create 200 jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s about god-damn time. Australia, one of the world’s sunniest countries, has jack-shit to show when it comes to solar and its implementation as a legitimate clean<\/em> power source. Our largest to date is a\u00a0poultry 102 megawatt installation in\u00a0Nyngan, NSW, run by AGL.<\/p>\n

We should be building these all over the country and big power providers should\u00a0jump on to stay relevant before becoming the taxi\u00a0industry\u00a0to today’s Uber.<\/p>\n

Source: Victoria Will Have Its First Large Scale Solar Power Stations By 2018 | Gizmodo Australia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three solar farms, with a combined output of 320 megawatts, are scheduled to be up and running by…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}