Solar farms SA council area
Solar farms in Goyder
1,175 MW operating or planned. Check how land here compares with the farms already built.
Sources: AEMO, ABS Updated 14 Oct 2026 Sources and methods
Farms 3Operating 0 MWPlanned 1,175 MW
Area 6,715 km²
Basemap and outlines © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Transmission line
- Power line
- Council area
Farms
Mostly planned, not yet built. 3 placed here by the nearest town on public pages. Not on the map.
| Solar farm | Capacity |
|---|---|
| Robertstown SolarProposed · near Robertstown, not on the map | 500 MW |
| Bundey BESS and Solar ProjectProposed · near Robertstown, not on the map | 475 MW |
| Australia Plains Solar FarmProposed · near Robertstown, not on the map | 200 MW |
Grid and sun
Measured from the middle of Goyder, not from any farm.
- Nearest substation
- 17 km
- Goyder Substation, 275 kV
- Next nearest
- 23 km
- Mokota, 275 kV
- Full sun a day, on average
- 4.7 hours
- Sunnier than 19% of Australia's land
Next door
Council areas sharing a boundary with Goyder that have solar farms.
Questions
What counts as planned?
Planned is every farm that is commissioning, committed, anticipated or proposed (publicly announced, or referred for approval). The headline adds those to every operating farm. Withdrawn projects are not counted. A farm with no published capacity is listed but adds no MW. A farm placed at the centre of its postcode or EPBC referral area, because no source gives its own location, counts in the council area that point falls in. Here: 0 MW operating across 0 farms, 1,175 MW planned across 3.
What do committed and anticipated mean?
They are AEMO's stages in its Generation Information. Committed: the project has known timing and satisfies all five of AEMO's commitment criteria, or four of them with the planning or contracts criterion partly met. Anticipated: it is sufficiently progressed towards meeting at least three of the five. Publicly announced: announced, but not yet far enough along to be anticipated or committed.
Where does the data come from?
Solar farms: AEMO under its copyright permissions, with attribution. Each farm is placed in the council area its point falls in, using the ABS 2025 council boundaries (CC BY 4.0). A farm no source locates, but public pages place near a town, counts in that town's council area and is listed without a point on the map. Substations: Geoscience Australia's electricity infrastructure layer (CC BY 4.0), operational substations of 66 kV and above. The substation distances are straight lines from the centre of the council area, not from any farm. Full sun a day: the solar yield (Global Solar Atlas 2.0, Solargis, the mean of 9,433 cells of about 1 km, higher than 19% of Australia's land) divided by 365.
Why are some farms approximate?
3 farms have no location in any source and are placed in this council area by the nearest town on public pages. They aren't on the map. Their council area is approximate. They count in the headline.
Why is a solar farm I know missing?
A farm appears here once a public source gives its location or the town it is near. The sources for this area are AEMO. Large solar farms are grid-scale power stations. Rooftop solar is not counted.
Which of these farms also farm the land?
Agrivoltaics means farming the same land as a solar farm, usually grazing sheep under the panels. No public source found so far says sheep, cattle or crops are on site at a farm in this area. That means nothing was found, not that there is no grazing.