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20/02/18
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Originally posted by Zoso74
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This is on CCE's doorstep.
Anyone know if they threw their hat in the ring for this one?
A development application has been submitted to the City of Fremantle by Australian energy renewal company EPURON to build a solar farm on the former South Fremantle landfill site.
The proposed solar farm will cover approximately 8 hectares of the 19.4 hectare landfill site on Cockburn Road and produce up to 4.9 megawatts of power.
The CoF has been looking at what to do with the site since 1985 but because it is a contaminated site it is very limited what can be done there.
Previous interest to build a solar farm on the site were abandoned after the companies did their financial due diligence. If Fremantle Council approves the application it will be the first urban solar farm of this scale in Australia.
The former landfill site is owned by the City of Fremantle and will be leased to Epuron to develop the project.
Epuron has been developing large scale wind energy projects since 2003 and solar photovoltaic facilities since 2010, including a 3.1 MW project in Alice Springs and a 2 MW project at Yulara in the Northern Territory.
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It is the first time I have seen it mentioned but I am sure CCE would have been aware of it.
Perhaps because they already have a presence in that area, this one may not have had the same appeal. If it came down to a choice between this one and the one in Newcastle, I would think the latter would give them better opportunities down the track.