NORMANTON SOLAR FARM, AUSTRALIA Developer Doug Scouller, who is partnering with Canadian Solar for the 5 MW Solar PV Power Station in Normanton, said rising electricity costs were the main driver behind the project. “I can see a need for reducing power losses. Increasing power production doesn’t reduce losses but I can see a need for decreasing generation of power because the network suffers so many losses. ” The Normanton Solar Farm is based at Lilyvale, a degraded ex-grazing property 5 km south of Normanton in Queensland’s Gulf Savannah region. It is a very remote, tropical location, experiencing monsoonal floods, cyclones, electrical storms and regular high temperature events, with a population of 2,200. The local council of Carpentaria Shire is very supportive of this project, as it wi

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