The solar power plant at Robertson Barracks has been connected and it will also provide power for public use, the federal government has said, a connection that comes at a time when the Northern Territory government has been unable to put electricity into the grid from private solar power stations.

Assistant Minister for Defence Matt Thistlethwaite said the 10 megawatt photovoltaic power station, made up of more than 27,000 solar panels, would supply up to 40 per cent of the barracks’s energy requirements, with any excess solar power fed into the Darwin grid to supply renewable energy.

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