A world-first solar project in remote far north Queensland could provide the blueprint for regional Australian towns to go it alone in the event of power failure.
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| The Lakeland project will comprise 41,440 solar panels and generate up to 13 megawatts of power. |
The Lakeland Solar and Storage Project, located 70 kilometres south west of Cooktown, will feature the first large-scale battery storage connected to a fringe-of-grid solar project.
Conergy, the company building the $42.5 million project, hopes to use Lakeland as a test case for 'grid-to-islanding' functionality — whereby the far north Queensland town could be powered directly from the battery for up to five hours in the event of a power failure.
Read the ABC story - “Experimental solar battery in Queensland's Lakeland could lead other remote towns off the grid.”
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