- Shell Australia describes the facility as its “first large-scale solar farm”.
- Queensland chosen as the project’s location because of reliable sunshine.
Shell Australia is set to construct and operate a solar farm made up of around 400,000 photovoltaic panels in the state of Queensland.
In an announcement Friday, Shell Australia described the facility as its “first large-scale solar farm” and said it would have a capacity of 120 megawatts.
Work on the project is set to finish in 2021, with Shell Australia saying up to 200 new jobs will be created during the construction phase.
Queensland was chosen as the project’s location because it had “some of the most reliable sunshine in the world”, the company added. The solar farm will help to power operations at the QGC onshore natural gas project and cut carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 300,000 tonnes a year.