The Greenough River Solar Farm is a 47 MW DC project located near Geraldton WA comprising of Stage 1 and Stage 2 Construction phases.
Greenough River Solar Farm stage 1 (10MW) was the first utility-scale PV project in Australia, commissioned in late 2012.
The second stage of Greenough River project (37MW) was originally announced in November 2017 and was appointed to RCR Tomlinson. Unfortunately, in the wake of RCR Tomlinson’s collapse at the end of 2018, the project came to a standstill.
Following an extensive process associated with RCR Tomlinson’s administration and liquidation, the developer (Bright Energy Investments) signed a new contract with the German EPC, juwi Renewable Australia Pty Ltd for the project completion.
Stage 1 supplies power to the WA Water Corporation and Bright Energy Investments has signed a PPA with power retailer Synergy Consulting Renewable Power Sector for the off-take of Stage 2.
Tranex Power Pty Ltd installed over 300,000 of First Solar modules on Nextracker Inc single-axis trackers. A significant amount of rectification works were also undertaken due to the fact the project was still in construction phase when RCR entered administration.
This project now provides the energy needs for around 16,300 average Western Australian households.
Tranex Power entered very significant planning sessions with the Juwi Renewable Australia approx 2 months before the Construction phase of the project started.This included mobilising Key Project personnel to site for reconnaissance visits to detail and extensively define the scope to work off from a base leveland to QA existing build items to understand the detail of the rectification works required.
From this scope, discussions where had with relevant suppliers and material providers regarding existing system parts, and Tranex Power and juwi RenewableAustralia where able to leverage our considerable joint industry knowledge and contacts to ensure these parts were secured in a timely manner to ensure the construction program was not compromised at all.
Tranex Power then defined and then implemented strict SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) for installation of these items and measured productivity / site personnel from the SOP’s to ensure that the project construction program was maintained.
Our In-house Drill-Rig was also mobilised to site, to ensure that piling works could continue to proceed in a timely manner and any rectification work could be addressed with right plant and equipment for the project.
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