Deputy Mayor Questions Safety After Blaze at Australia’s Biggest Solar Farm

Deputy Mayor Questions Safety After Blaze at Australia’s Biggest Solar Farm

A New South Wales (NSW) community is demanding action from renewables companies after a blaze broke out at Australia’s largest solar farm. Wellington North, which is operated by Lightsource BP, caught fire on the weekend as lightning strikes and heat played havoc with NSW weather conditions. The NSW Rural Fire Service spent the weekend working to contain blazes across NSW, but Dubbo Regional Council Deputy Mayor Councillor Phillip Toynton questi…

Aussie Solar Farm Fire Briefly Interrupts Output

"This is the thing that happens with renewable energy" - Dubbo Deputy Mayor Philip Toynton.

Fire forces 400 MW solar farm offline in Australia

Fire forced the shutdown of the Wellington North Solar Farm in New South Wales, Australia, on the weekend, but officials expect the 400 MW facility to resume full operations “shortly."From pv magazine Australia The 400 MW Wellington North Solar Farm in central western New South Wales (NSW) is currently operating at 90% capacity with project owner lightsource bp assessing the damage after a grass fire at the site on Saturday. Data provided by mar…

Fire forces 400 MW solar farm offline

Fire forced the shutdown of the Wellington North Solar Farm in central western New South Wales at the weekend but officials expect the 400 MW facility to resume full operations “shortly.”The 400 MW Wellington North Solar Farm in central western New South Wales (NSW) is currently operating at 90% capacity with project owner lightsource bp assessing the damage after a grass fire at the site on Saturday. Data provided by market analyst WattClarity …

Wellington North Solar Farm offline in ST PASA data from Saturday 6th December 2025, following grassfire

Just after 13:00 (NEM time) on Saturday 6th December 2025, the Wellington North Solar Farm came offline following a grass fire onsite.