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!Coming Soon! - Truth Map — Rainforest Reserves Australia

https://www.rainforestreserves.org.au/renewablestruthmap

Listening to Alan Kohler's Money Café today, and he mentions talking to Steven Nowakowski about this project. I'll try to keep an eye out for when they release it, but it sounds like a fantastically interesting tool.

From the page,

This is the first national tool that allows you to: ✅ Zoom into your suburb. ✅ See every wind, solar, offshore, and BESS project near you (current and proposed). ✅ Explore the full environmental and economic footprint of the rollout.


Key data in Truth map

  • 205 BESS projects
  • 13 Hydrogen
  • 13 Hydro Projects (expansion of existing or new)
  • 24 Pumped Hydros
  • 545 Solar
  • 296 Onshore Wind (101 commissioned & operational)
  • 28 Offshore Wind (proposed)
  • 2 Tidal Total 1,126 projects

Total of 323 wind farms (commissioned and proposed)


Some keys stats in mapping

  • Total length of proposed new haulage roads for wind 44,895.5km
  • Total surface area for solar Existing 27,176ha Proposed 443,755 ha
  • Total undersea cabling length for offshore wind - Proposed 7,980.9km
  • Total number of wind towers - Existing 4,552
  • Total number of wind towers (including hydrogen) - Proposed 25,869 (5,495 for hydrogen) & offshore wind
  • Total number of solar panels (utility and rooftop) - Existing 82,025,000
  • Total number of solar panels (utility and rooftop) - Proposed 584,000,000

TOTAL COST $1.328 trillion (excluding transmission, roof top solar, home BESS & 15GW of new gas projects)