Energy Figures

How much large solar is operating or in the pipeline in Snowy Monaro?

80

MW of large solar farms operating or in the pipeline

NSW council area · 15,165 km²

  • 66 to 132 kV
  • 220 to 275 kV
  • 330 kV
  • 500 kV
  • Operating solar farm
  • In the pipeline
  • Approximate location (postcode or referral area centre)
  • EPBC referral area
Fig. 1 · Solar farms in Snowy Monaro · AEMO, DCCEEW EPBC referrals · Councils ABS 2025 · 4 Oct 2026 · Basemap and farm outlines © OpenStreetMap contributors
Operating
0 MW
In the pipeline
80 MW
Solar farm
1

Source AEMO, DCCEEW EPBC referrals · 4 Oct 2026

Solar farms

Solar farms in Snowy Monaro, NSW
Solar farmStatusCapacity
Cooma Solar And BESS (ACEN) (approximate location)Proposed80 MW

Source Geoscience Australia · 66 kV and above · From the area's centre

Nearest substations

Substations nearest the centre of Snowy Monaro, NSW
SubstationVoltageDistance from area centre
Springfield132 kV25 km
East Jindabyne66 kV25 km
Cooma132 kV26 km

Source Global Solar Atlas 2.0, Solargis · Mean of 21,917 cells of about 1 km

Average solar yield

1,607 kWh per kWp a year

Yield higher than 9% of Australia’s land

Questions

What counts as in the pipeline?

In the pipeline 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 Withdrawn projects are not counted.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, 80 MW in the pipeline across 1.

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; EPBC referrals from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) under CC BY 4.0. Each farm is placed in the council area its point falls in, using the ABS 2025 council boundaries (CC BY 4.0). 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.

Why do some farms say approximate location?

1 farm is placed at the centre of its postcode or EPBC referral area, because no source gives its own location, so its council area is approximate. It counts in the headline.

Why is a solar farm I know missing?

A farm appears here only once a public source gives its location. The sources for this area are AEMO, DCCEEW EPBC referrals. 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.