Tag: Flow Power

The solar farm at Newstead is taking customers

By Renewable Newstead 24 June 2024

WHO IS SELLING THE ELECTRICITY?
Our partner, a local Australian company, Flow Power, will provide 100% GreenPower-accredited electricity linked to the Newstead solar farm when it comes on line and begins generating electricity from July 2024.

Even though construction is not due for completion until June and the the Newstead Solar Farm is not yet generating electricity for commercial sale, you can sign up as a Flow Power customer now.

If you do, and your electricity supply address is in or near Newstead, you will receive electricity via the grid that’s billed from one of Flow Power’s other renewable energy generation sites, at Karadoc near Ouyen, until such time as the Newstead Solar Farm comes online and begins to generate electricity. (Flow Power sources power from renewable energy sources – solar and wind - exclusively.)

The Flow Power website will tell you about them and about buying their electricity, but we thought you might also like to hear from RN. Our short summary explains more about Flow Power's electricity retail costing, benefits and how to make sure your account is linked to the Newstead Solar Farm.

summary of the retail offer

Solar panels to track sun

Newstead's solar farm will have panels that track the sun. Here's what they might look like.

By Gen Barlow 01 February 2022

Have you been to Streaky Bay in South Australia recently?

There you’ll see a small-scale solar farm (3.10MW) that's slightly smaller than ours is planned to be (5MW in two stages).

It’s owned by the same company, Flow Power, that will build, own and operate our solar farm. The Streaky Bay solar farm supplies power mostly to South Australia’s Western Eyre Peninsula.

Our solar farm will be developed in two stages, each of 2.5MW and each with a 2MW battery.

Stage 1 is expected to over about eight hectares. The solar panels will cover about 35per cent of this area. Their size and dimensions are yet to be finalised.

The panels will track the sun from east to west each day and will be recyclable. They will be in rows 80-100 metres long with enough space between rows to allow access and to avoid significant inter-row shading.

A same sized second stage is planned and will go ahead is there is successful uptake of the first.stage.

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