Is your land suited to a solar farm?

The 124 solar farms of 5 MW or more that were operating when this page was built and have a known site: an OpenStreetMap outline (© OpenStreetMap contributors), an EPBC referral area, or a Geoscience Australia point. Each is measured at the centre of its site. Many farms built their own connection substation, which sits on the farm, so a farm's own substation is left out: one inside the farm's outline, one near the centre of its site, or one named after the farm with "solar" in its name. A town's grid substation that only shares the farm's name is kept. The farm is then measured to the next nearest substation, as a new site would be. 2 farms measured more than 100 km from a substation, most likely a misplaced point, are left out of the grade.

An area planned for new wind and solar farms with the transmission to carry their power. AEMO's zones are candidates in its national plan. A state declares a zone in law, which sets up access rights and rules. Victoria's declared zones are shown. NSW publishes its declared zones' boundaries only as maps, so NSW points show AEMO's candidate zone.

NSW and Queensland so far. Elsewhere the check covers the point you chose.

Each check stores the point rounded to about 100 m, the result and the date. If you answer the hosting question or choose lots, those are saved with it. See the privacy page.