The Sunraysia Solar Farm is a

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under construction south of

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in south western

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, Australia. It is expected to be completed around the end of 2019. The Sunraysia Solar Farm is owned by Maoneng Australia and is being designed and built by Decmil. Construction started in early 2019. Fifty percent of the output of the Sunraysia Solar Farm energy will supply

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, and twenty-five percent will be supplied to the

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. The rest will be sold into the

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. It is part of AGL's plan to replace the output of its coal-fired Liddell Power Station which is due to close in 2022. Immediately north of the Sunraysia Solar Farm, the

Limondale Solar Farm Limondale Solar Farm is a solar farm south of Balranald in southwestern New South Wales, Australia. When it was completed, it was the largest solar farm in Australia. It is owned by German company RWE through a subsidiary Belectric Solar and Ba ...

has been commissioned. Both solar farms will connect to the same 220kV

TransGrid Transgrid is the manager and operator of the high voltage electricity transmission network in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, and is part of the National Electricity Market (NEM). The company's offices are located ...

substation.

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