New pics reveal extraordinary scope of $130m Woolooga solar farm

Amazing new pictures of the Woolooga solar farm have captured the immense size and progress of the project, which was ‘disrupted’ amid severe flooding in January and February. PHOTOS.

This year’s torrential rain and flood disasters have disrupted work at the $130m Woolooga solar farm, but not enough to put a damper on the energy hub’s start date.

Lightsource BP country manager Adam Pegg said the severe weather that wreaked chaos across Gympie and the Wide Bay caused problems for workers who were initially left cut off from the site.

When they did return, they were faced with the clean-up.

Despite the delays brought about by the severe weather, which caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage across the Gympie and Fraser Coast regions, Mr Pegg said the solar farm was still on schedule to for its end of 2022 completion date.

New pics reveal extraordinary scope of 650ha, $130m solar farm

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More than 400,000 solar panels will be spread across 650ha of land next to the Wide Bay Highway once the renewable hub is finished.

Mr Pegg said the company was “excited” to have the hub running as it would be Lightsource’s first in Queensland.

The solar farm was given approval in 2019 and the company spent the next two years buying up the land.

It spent more than $10m on the five properties, according to CoreLogic’s RP data.

The project is being powered by part of $330m in funding Lightsource BP received from investors including Westpac in Australia, and international companies EDC, ING, and Intesa Sanpaolo.

It will be capable of powering more than 63,000 Queensland homes and save more than 350,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions.