Renewable energy

Since our company formed in 2000 we’ve made huge investments in solar.

While some of these technologies may take time to develop, growing our position in renewable energy is one of our major priorities.

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330,000¹ homes

Homes we can power through our wind power portfolio.

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492,000 accounts

Customers with solar PV installed.

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Leading GreenPower retailer

We’re one of Australia’s largest providers of GreenPower.

Our renewable project portfolio for cleaner energy

We have more than a decade of experience in large-scale renewable generation and one of our priorities is to grow our capability and investment in renewable energy. 

Wind energy

We buy wind power from wind farms across South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales – it’s a combined generation capacity of around 700 MW.

Located in Victoria’s central highlands, approximately 35km west of Ballarat, the Stockyard Hill Wind Farm has the potential to harness one of Victoria’s best wind resources. In May 2017, Origin entered into a sale and purchase agreement with Goldwind to purchase all the power generated by the wind farm. 

Solar

We have more than 15 years’ experience in solar and solar technologies and growing our solar business is one of our priorities. We’ve been named Australia’s #1 Solar Installer (2001–2022) by SunWiz, having installed more than 1.8 million solar panels and over 120,000 solar systems.

Origin is Australia’s largest buyer of utility scale solar, with agreements to buy more than 680 MW of solar energy signed since 2016.

These include the:

• 56 MW Moree Solar Farm in northern NSW, which commenced operation in 2016
• 100 MW Clare Solar Farm in northern Queensland
• 110 MW Darling Downs Solar Farm in southeast Queensland, to be built next to our gas-fired Darling Downs Power Station

References

1. Based on 700 MW portfolio of contracted wind power, a conservative capacity factor of 35 per cent and average household electricity consumption of 6.5 MWh per annum.