U.S., Feb. 7 -- As Big Oil continues to diversify in the wake of environmental, social and legislative pressures, Shell Australia has announced the construction of its first solar farm in the country.
The farm, to be situated in Queensland, will have an annual capacity of 120MW across around 400,000 photovoltaic (PV) panels. With the project due to become operational in 2021, the construction phase will generate 200 new jobs for the local economy.
Queensland is known as one of the world's most consistently sunny regions, making it an ideal location for PV-based power generation. The challenge is how that energy is transmitted across such vast space with limited, or simply outmoded, infrastructure.
Shell Australia has therefore based its...