Location
Fosterville Solar Farm will be located approximately 20 kilometres east of Bendigo and approximately 5 kilometres north east of Axedale township. The site is located within the City of Greater Bendigo council area.
The site covers approximately 185 hectares of private rural land currently used for crops and grazing. The choice of this location for the solar farm is driven by a combination of:
- Excellent solar irradiation
- Low level of environmental impact – the site has been largely cleared and heavily disturbed by previous cultivation and cropping
- Level terrain for cost effective construction
- Ideal location on the national electricity grid for exporting the solar farm’s electricity into the existing network.
- Excellent access to local and major roads
- FRV is currently preparing technical, planning, heritage, and environmental assessments for the site. The project will be built on private land that will be leased from the landowners via a long-term lease agreement.
The project has been designed to fit the available land and to maximize the facility’s energy generation capacity and energy yield. The solar farm layout has been specifically designed to avoid disturbing Aboriginal Cultural sensitivity areas.
Land zoning will not change as solar farms are a compatible activity for development within this zone.
