One of the world’s most popular online payments systems, PayPal, is now sourcing some of its electricity requirements from a solar farm in Arizona.

The capital intensity per watt of the utility scale solar plants in the current development pipeline in Australia is about half that of those that are already operational.

AGL Energy is set to begin construction on its 200MW Silverton wind farm in western New South Wales after agreement was reached on the terms of the project’s sale to the Powering Australian Renewables Fund, the first greenfield project of its kind to be acquired by the joint venture fund.

Victoria has announced a tender for 75MW of large scale solar to be constructed in the northwest of the state, with 35MW of these arrays will “linked to” Melbourne’s tram network.