Projects Renewable energy on the other side of the globe Cunderdin is located 156 kilometres east of the The commissioning of the the use of renewable energy. The solar farm has Australian city of Perth, in the Wheatbelt region Global Power Generation facility the capacity to provide four hours of constant of Western Australia. The town enjoys an av- created one hundred jobs and electricity supply during peak demand periods generated an investment of erage of over 4,400 hours of sunshine per year. $229,000 for engagement and every day of the year. It thus facilitates the de- And it washere, in an area dominatedbyagri- profit-sharing activities in the carbonisation of the country by preventing the culture and livestock farming, that Global Power local community. The company emission of 140,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide Generation decided to sow the seeds of a sus- has been developing projects and generating the energy equivalent to the an- tainable energy future. in Australia for over fifteen nual consumption of 51,000 homes. years, where it now has more The project consists of 229,500 modules and The internationalelcetriciysubsidiayt r of than 1 GW of installed capacity Spanish energy company Naturgy has established in operation. has a solarphotovoltaic capacity of 128 mega- itself in Cunderdin with s firsit thbridly pant watts (MW). These units are combined with a combining photovoltaic generation and energy 55 MW/220 MWh battery energy storage system, storage. The project involved an investment of which can be used on days or at times when €172 million and represents a major advance in there is little sunshine. 42