Australia's Largest Solar Farm Opens

The Greenough River Solar Project in Western Australia is expected to have enough capacity to power 3,000 homes was opened on Wednesday Oct 10,2012
The Greenough River Solar Project,outside the small town of Walkaway in the State of Western Australia, is a JV between Western Australian state-owned Verve Energy and US conglomerate General Electric.The plant is General Electric's first investment in Australian renewable energy, and plans are already underway to eventually expand it to 40MW.

The Greenough River Solar Project is expected to have a capacity of 10 megawatts, enough to power 3,000 homes.

Australia is one of the world's most ideal places for solar projects. It has the highest average solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world, according to government, and a population the size of New Delhi spread over an area the size of the contiguous United States.

Australia currently gets about 10% of its electricity supply from renewable energy, about two-thirds of which comes from hydropower.