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OX2 Starts Muswellbrook Solar and 200MWh Battery

8/22/2026

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OX2 Builds Solar

OX2 began construction on the Muswellbrook Solar Farm and Battery in New South Wales.
The facility includes 135 MW solar and a 100 MW/200 MWh battery serving over 52,000 homes.
OX2 will pay about $115,000 each year to Muswellbrook’s Community Benefit Sharing Program.
The 2.5 km-east site beside a closed coal mine is OX2’s first owner-operated Australian project.
The farm is one of nine projects under Amazon PPAs, part of a $A2.8 billion, 430 MW buy-up.

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Council Approves Solar

North Lincolnshire council granted planning permission for the 20.2 MW Sand Lane Solar Farm.
The 32.5-hectare site, former Black Walk Practice Bombing Range (1943-45), must undergo a magnetometer survey for unexploded ordnance.
Developers pledged that no construction vehicles will travel through Manton village.
Construction will last six months, employing up to 50 workers.
Councillors rejected the 49.9 MW Scawby Brook Solar Farm, citing loss of Grade 3b agricultural land.

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OX2 Builds Solar

OX2 began construction on the Muswellbrook Solar Farm and Battery in New South Wales.
The facility includes 135 MW solar and a 100 MW/200 MWh battery serving over 52,000 homes.
OX2 will pay about $115,000 each year to Muswellbrook’s Community Benefit Sharing Program.
The 2.5 km-east site beside a closed coal mine is OX2’s first owner-operated Australian project.
The farm is one of nine projects under Amazon PPAs, part of a $A2.8 billion, 430 MW buy-up.

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