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"The Grong Grong solar farm powered up on Friday and is now operational, proof
– the people behind the project say – that community-owned renewables projects
can get off the ground.
The 1.5 megawatt (MW) project was officially launched a month ago, a
celebration of a four year endeavour by Komo Energy to build the country’s
first crowdfunded solar farm.
The farm is not quite generating at nameplate capacity due to wintery
conditions in the Riverina, New South Wales (NSW) location, and is currently
exporting a maximum 1.1 MW to the grid, says Komo Energy director Jonathan
Prendergast.
“The project is battery-ready [for a 2.3 MWh storage system] and we’ll need to
raise $1.3 million, but we have no timeline for that yet,” he says.
Full commissioning will take place after a second test in October."
Disclosure: I am one of the crowdfunding investors in the Grong Grong solar
farm.
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