Meet the Project
Project Overview
The project includes a 5 MW Solar Farm that has development and grid connection approval for solar.
It is situated on the property ‘Alexandres’ south of Manilla under a proposed 35 year lease.
The project will generate enough power for approx 2,500 homes.
Once fundraise has completed, the project will enter the procurement and EOI process.
Local businesses are invited to register their details for upcoming contruction, and maintance works.
Register here to get project updates.
Overhead view of the Manilla Solar project - the cut out section details the project road and site plan.Single axis tracking
The panal arrays are designed to utilise single axis tracking solar technology, where the panels face East in the morning and rotate to face West in the afternoon to increase production by approximately 20% compared to fixed solar panels.
Battery Storage
The solar farm also has plans for an approximate 2 hour battery, subject to final design and finance. The battery storage will be able to soak up approximately one quarter of daily solar production and supply into the grid in the evening to meet peak demand, as well as providing fast grid balancing services.
To date, the Manilla Community Solar Project has been developed by Providence Climate Capital. This has included gaining grid connection approval and planning approval.
The next stages of the project are enabling community investment and ownership of the project, development finalisation and procurement of construction contractors. This will bring the project to investment readiness where the project will seek funding for construction from primarily community investment, and potentially other sources.
Meet the Team
- Manilla Community Renewable Energy Inc.
- MCRE is a not for profit community group started in 2013. The group aims are:
- Build a community owned solar and storage energy plant.
- Develop a blueprint to share our knowledge with communities across the North West of NSW + everywhere!
- Celebrate our community with events like Renewable Manilla
- MCRE meet monthly and welcome new members.
- Connect via Facebook
- Komo Energy
- Komo Energy provide development and delivery services for Community Solar projects. This has included the Grong Grong Solar Farm and Goulburn Community Solar Farm in recent years.
- Community project include:
- Grong Solar Farm
- Goulburn Community Solar Farm
- MCRE meet monthly and welcome new members.
- Connect via LinkedIn
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- Register here
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