tegandrew
Tourist
Reged: 07/09/05
Posts: 44
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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Placemark collection updated on 23 August 2008 with corrected locations for 165 sites based on community feedback via the website linked to from each balloon.
The attached placemark collection contains information on 476 renewable energy generators in Australia. The information was downloaded from the Australian Greenhouse Office website.
Each generator is classed as solar, hydro, wind, biomass or other. The technologies include reciprocating engine, steam turbine, cogeneration, gas turbine, gasification, water turbine, photovoltaic cells, solar concentrator, wave turbine, wind turbine and solar dish.
Note that detailed information (such as addresses) are not made available by the AGO and their website states: "The positions of power stations are not accurate and mostly represent the general locality of the power station. Locations of power stations maybe more than 10 km from the actual site."
Therefore, following some tutorials on GMaps/PHP/MySQL/KML found around the net I have created a website that you can use to correct the location of each site based on your local knowledge. You can then reload the network link to see the changes. To access this website just click on the link in the balloon.
I will update the attached collection as locations are corrected by the community. For live data please download the network link in the post below.
Edited by tegandrew (08/23/08 05:53 AM)
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tegandrew
Tourist
Reged: 07/09/05
Posts: 44
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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For those of you who prefer live data, this post contains the same information as the above post, but in the format of a network link that downloads the latest corrected data. Just add this network link to your collection and it will update automatically.
I have posted the collections in both formats because network links are not included in the Google Earth Community layer and the best way for people to see and correct the location of these placemarks is to access them from that layer.
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philverney
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Loc: Leek, UK
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Another great one for the Showcase I think  - http://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.html
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heamit
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Hi again tegandrew!
Another brilliant post. 5 stars from me for sure! I think your hi-tech way of allowing people to edit the locations is very well done! 
I have one question : does this site count? Or is it experimental or something?
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tegandrew
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Reged: 07/09/05
Posts: 44
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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Thanks heamit,
As stated in the Wikipedia article that solar array was shut down and resumed by the landowner in December 2004 so it is not included in the list of operational sites I have put together. Bit of a shame really as that area gets a LOT of sun.
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tegandrew
Tourist
Reged: 07/09/05
Posts: 44
Loc: Sydney, Australia
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I have updated the static placemark collection today with 102 fixed locations. This is largely due to the efforts of Mark Scholes with hydro electric stations in Victoria and Tasmania, and Philip Robertson with solar and hybrid stations in remote communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia. Thank you very much for you contributions! 
Philip writes:
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We now have at last count approx 110 systems installed. Ranging from single house systems with average daily budgets of 4 -8kWh to the largest at Lingarra, a community hybrid that supplies up to 250kWh/day during the Wet season. This site is currently supporting an average 105kWh/day with no diesel runtime.
We have just been refunded for a further two years that will take us thru to June 2010. We are also gradually taking on the responsibility of maintaining and fixing a very large number of systems installed by other parties. Vast sums of money have been spent on systems that are either not working, being poorly maintained or just don’t meet the communities needs.
Of all the systems we have installed since 2004 until today I had only seen one on the images. I have picked up several more today. The irony of the one that was there is that when I found it, it had just recently been stolen. The community was away and somebody came in and uplifted approx 3 tonnes of equipment.
You can read more about Philip's work at Bushlight.
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