Location
Maules Creek Solar Farm will be located approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Narrabri and approximately 20 kilometres northeast of Boggabri township. The site is located within the Narrabri LGA.
The site covers approximately 300 hectares of private rural land currently used for grazing. The choice of this location for the solar farm is driven by a combination of:
- Excellent solar irradiation
- Low level of environmental impact – the site has been largely cleared and heavily disturbed by previous cultivation and cropping
- Level terrain for cost effective construction
- Ideal location on the national electricity grid for exporting the solar farm’s electricity into the existing network.
- Excellent access to local and major roads
FRV is currently preparing technical, planning, heritage, and environmental assessments for the site.
The project will be built on private land that will be leased from the landowners via a long-term lease agreement.
The project has been designed to fit the available land and to maximize the facility’s energy generation capacity and energy yield.
Land zoning will not change as solar farms are a permissible use of land within this zone.
Additional lots are not being sought at this time. The project has been appropriately sized to match estimated electricity grid capacity in the local area.
