- Photon Energy Group Acquires Solar and Battery Storage Project in Australia.
- The facility in Boggabri will have a generation capacity of 9.8 MWp generating around 16.4 GWh of renewable energy per year to the grid operated by Essential Energy.
Photon Energy Group Acquires Solar and Battery Storage Project in Australia. The facility in Boggabri, New South Wales, will have a generation capacity of 9.8 MWp generating around 16.4 GWh of renewable energy per year to the grid operated by Essential Energy. The project, which incorporates a 10 MWh battery storage system, is the Company’s first utility-scale solar-plus-storage installation and will serve as a prototype for a future roll-out across Photon Energy Group’s European markets.
Upon completion, the Boggabri installation will expand the Group’s IPP (independent power producer) portfolio to 96 power plants, with a combined generation capacity of nearly 130 MWp. It will extend over 22 hectares of greenfield land and be equipped with over 16,500 high-efficiency bifacial solar modules mounted on single-axis trackers.
Michael Gartner, CTO of Photon Energy Group and Managing Director of Photon Energy Australia, said: “This transaction marks a significant milestone as Photon Energy Group’s first utility-scale solar and battery storage project. This project will significantly contribute to the NSW Government’s objective to deliver a 50% cut in emissions by 2030 compared to 2005”. The electricity generated will be sold on the energy market on a merchant basis. Photon Energy Group expects to break ground on the project towards the end of the second quarter of 2023.