Dear Sir Madam
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the EIS relating to the Gilgandra Solar Farm. I am the owner of Netherby, a 2300 acre grazing property which includes the closest dwelling. Netherby shares a 1.6km boundary along the Baroona Road with the solar farm.
I am objecting to the insufficient width and density of the buffer zone. I have attached my submission to the proposal which outlines my objections.
Thank you for your comprehensive report, your ongoing consultation and efforts to bring this project and the affected neighbours along.

Please see my attached submission

I object to the proposed Gilgandra solar farm on the grounds of its likely adverse impact on NSW electricity prices and electricity security for NSW.

I have previously brought to the attention of the Department and the PAC the way in which intermittent electricity generators subsidised under the LRET make on-demand baseload thermal plants uneconomic and drive them out of the electricity system creating electricity insecurity (since by definition intermittent power generators such as this proposal do not produce power 24/7) and forcing up electricity prices damaging the whole NSW economy, destroying jobs, destroying assets and harming millions of NSW citizens, particularly the least affluent.

You have the information in my previous submissions on a number of wind farm proposals, though diligence in the planning task would require that the Department sourced the information independently.

I bring to your attention the recent articles by Robert Gottliebsen in The Australian (April 20th and 21st) in which, after consulting power engineers, he forecasts `If we have a "normal" summer in 2017-18 in our two largest cities it is absolutely certain we will have blackouts covering 10 to 15 days'.

The Department is already culpable in producing this situation. Approving more intermittent power generators will cause even greater long term harm to the NSW. It will also impose additional costs on NSW taxpayers when the NSW Government is forced to pay compensation upon rescinding such approvals.

This proposal needs to be entirely rejected as nothing more than vandalism against the State of NSW and its citizens.

See Attached