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The Project: Fulham Solar Farm
Overview:
400 acres
80 MW solar farm
up to 120 MWHr battery storage
66 KV transmission
ETA shovel ready:
Quarter 2, 2024
The Fulham Project is a proposed solar farm of 80 megawatts with battery storage of up to 120 megawatt hours to be located on 400 acres of farmland adjacent to the north western corner of the Hopkins Road and McLarens Road intersection Fulham, within Wellington Shire.
The project concept was conceived because of the desperate need for additional electricity supply and reliability within the region east of the Latrobe Valley.
The design of the project, subject to sign off by the design engineers, will be a single axis array system of around 160,000 bi-facial solar panels. Bi-facial modules as the name suggests produce solar power from both sides of the solar panel and can improve energy generation by up to 8%.
The battery storage is an essential part of the project as it assists in ensuring consistent energy supply to the electricity grid during times of low solar energy output.