The team behind the solar farm planned for the old abattoir site say "nothing is very easy and nothing happens fast" but they are "happy with the progress" of the project.
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Although the completion date of early 2018 turns out to have been a bit optimistic, there has been consistent headway, an Ironbark Energy representative said.
The associated industrial development should be "finished within months" and a development application for stage 2 of the solar farm is with Gunnedah Shire Council.
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The Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) approved Ironbark Energy's application to construct a 27-megawatt solar farm in April 2016 - stage 1 of the project.
It will feed into the electricity grid to provide power to customers in and around the area.
"The project will create power for the community using renewable, sustainable and clean energy," panel chairman Garry West said at the time.
The current development application for stage 2 seeks consent for a 29.5-megawatt solar energy system, and the subdivision of the panels into 275 community titles.
The community titles allow buyers to invest in the project and make money from the energy produced.
'An interesting industry'
The Ironbark representative said the industrial development, which flanks the solar farm site, should be complete by June.
The solar farm build was waiting on the result of connections negotiations between Ironbark, Essential Energy and TransGrid, which had been under way for more than a year.
The Ironbark representative said green energy was "an interesting industry".
"There's many hoops to jump through and we've jumped through many of them, and now we're at the pointy end," he said.
"We have a timeline to finish the industrial development ... and hope that timeliness coincides with when we're going to get our final connection approvals."
He said Ironbark had had "lots of interest from individual investors for lots in the solar farm" but not as much for the industrial land.
"That's a shame ... but we understand it's not George Street in Sydney."
Each stage of the solar farm part of the project would take about nine to 12 months to build.
Ironbark Energy has said it anticipates the solar farm will employ five people long-term over its 25-year lifespan.