World's largest cattle station installs microgrid as primary power source

World's largest cattle station installs microgrid as primary power source

As the Australian energy sector responds to the federal government’s tenfold expansion of the small-scale renewable energy scheme from 100 kW to 1 MW, a South Australian (SA)—and the world’s largest—cattle station has already deployed rooftop solar to tackle energy reliability and diesel fuel costs. Spanning an area of approximately 23,800 kilometres squared, the equivalent of roughly 3 million rugby fields, the Williams Cattle Company (WCC)-own…