New England Solar Farm
Work Packages | Company Awarded | Company Location |
Traffic Control | Ahoy Traffic Control | Glenreagh |
Power Quality Meters | CSE-Uniserve | Baulkham Hills |
Fire Water Tanks | Kingspan Water & Energy | Blacktown |
The $500m New England Solar Farm project will occupy a 3,362-hectare site and will convert energy from solar radiation into electrical energy, which will then be fed into the electricity grid. Stage one includes a 400MWAC solar farm, 33/330kV Substation, and an operations and maintenance building.
There are a number of work packages for project that are closing between 1 June and 22 July. More information is available here.
Sebastopol Solar Farm
Work Packages | Company Awarded | Company Location |
Coach Services | Temora Buses | Temora |
The Sebastopol Solar farm has a nameplate rating of 90MWac and consists of approximately 224,400 PV (photovoltaic) modules mounted on piers that will be driven into the existing subgrade. In addition to this, there will be 20 power station units with 2 inverters each and 3 weather stations, with piles to be driven into existing ground.
Snowy 2.0
Work Package | Company Awarded | Company Location |
Welding of TBM Components | Baker & Provan | St. Marys |
Future Generation is a joint venture created specifically to build Snowy 2.0 on behalf of Snowy Hydro Limited. Snowy 2.0 will supercharge the Snowy Scheme’s existing hydro-electric generation and large-scale storage capabilities. More information about this project is available here.
The project will involve underground excavation and tunnelling works between Tantangara and Talbingo dams to depths of up to one kilometre. There will be surface works in several locations including intake-outlet structures at Talbingo and Tantangara dams, surge shafts and tunnel portal sites.