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UQ now on 100 per cent green energy with Warwick solar farm – Brisbane Times
UQ’s Warwick solar farm will be officially opened on Friday, making UQ the first university in the world to run completely on green power.
“Its about being a knowledge leader, and learning from that and inspiring people to take up the technology themselves.”
The $125 million project is predicted to produce 160,000 megawatt hours of power a year, the equivalent of taking almost 50,000 cars off the road for a year or avoiding burning more than 20,000 tonnes of coal.
Its also enough to fully power 27,000 average homes, which it will likely do as it will hook into the states energy grid directly.
Rather than offsetting the universit…
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