Australia’s biggest rooftop solar panel at UQ
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One-and-a-half football fields worth of solar grids will be installed on the roofs of three buildings.
The University of Queensland’s Saint Lucia campus in Brisbane will be home to the country’s largest rooftop solar panel.
One-and-a-half football fields worth of solar grids will be installed on the roofs of three buildings.
UQ’s Professor Paul Meredith says they will produce about five per cent of the university’s energy needs which is enough to power 800 households.
He says they will also allow for significant research into solar energy.
“It’s a very, very valuable piece of research infrastructure,” he said.
“It is globally significant – I only know of a small handful of universities around the world that have anything like this and it really positions us, as the University of Queensland as a really a major research provider in solar energy.”
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