A Green Power Plant Larger Than Slovenia to Be Built in Australia

Australia is planning to build a renewable energy plant that will generate 70 GW of energy.

The facility will be built in seven phases over three decades, taking into account the development of technology, and will cover an area of 2.2 million hectares (22,700 square kilometres), which is larger than the area of entire countries such as Slovenia and El Salvador.

The Western Green Energy Hub, as the project is called, will be mainly a wind and solar energy facility. It will be built in Dundas County.

It will have 60 million photovoltaic panels distributed across 35 solar power plants, as well as 3,000 wind turbines with a capacity of 7 MW to 20 MW. The huge power plant will consist of 35 nodes, each with a capacity of 2-3 GW.

The facility will produce more than 200 TWh of renewable energy annually. The current electricity generation capacity in Australia, according to the latest estimates, is 274 TWh.

The project is expected to make an important contribution to Australia’s transition to a clean energy economy by 2050. At full capacity, the estimated cost is A$100 billion.