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WestWind Energy
WestWind Energy is an Australian company involved in development and operation of wind farms. Its origins were in Germany in the renewable energy sector. It is part of the WestWind Group of companies which has its headquarters in Kirchdorf, Lower Saxony, Germany. WestWind Energy has been involved in several projects in the state of Victoria. It did the early development planning for the Mount Mercer Wind Farm, approx. 30km south of Ballarat before selling the project to Meridian Energy prior construction. It also did the development and planning for the Lal Lal Wind Farm, a two-site wind farm situated near Yendon (approx. 17km east of Ballarat) and Elaine (approx. 25km south-east of Ballarat) before selling the project to Macquarie Capital. It also did the planning and development for Moorabool Wind Farm before selling that project to Goldwind Australia for development. In 2019, West Wind gained planning approval for the Golden Plains Wind Farm in western Victoria which cou ...
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Gisborne, Victoria
Gisborne () is a town in the Macedon Ranges, located about north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest town in the Macedon Ranges Shire, with a population of 13,963 as of June 2018. Gisborne is known for its country homesteads, tree-lined streets, restaurants and cafes. The town has become a popular 'tree change' destination for Melbourne residents seeking large leafy blocks and a quiet lifestyle within easy commuting distance from the city. As such, the town has grown substantially over the past 5–10 years, with an increase of almost 2,600 residents since 2011, although planning controls have been implemented to protect the character and "outstanding natural beauty" of the region. History The original inhabitants of Gisborne were the Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people have lived in the Macedon Ranges area for at least 26,000 years. The Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrrung and Taungurung communities are still active. The Gisborn ...
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Yendon, Victoria
Yendon is a small town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool, west of the state capital, Melbourne and approximately south east of Ballarat. The town was originally called Buninyong East, but was changed in 1879 to Yendon, believed to be an Indigenous Australian word meaning "waterhole". At the , Yendon had a population of 307. History The Geelong-Ballarat railway line passed through Yendon, and for a while in the early 1860s it was the terminus of the line. The station was originally called Buninyong, but was changed to Yendon in 1876. A substantial two-storey bluestone station building was opened in 1862. It was demolished in 1969, and the stone was reused to construct garden retaining walls at the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, now Federation University Federation University Australia (Fed Uni) is a public, multi-sector university based in Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The university also has campuses in Ararat, Horsham, ...
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Warracknabeal, Victoria
Warracknabeal ( ) is a wheatbelt town in the Australian state of Victoria. Situated on the banks of the Yarriambiack Creek, 330 km north-west of Melbourne, it is the business and services centre of the northern Wimmera and southern Mallee districts, and hosts local government offices of the Shire of Yarriambiack. At the Warracknabeal district had a population of 2,745, of which 2,340 lived in the town. History The original inhabitants of the area around Warracknabeal were the Wotjobaluk tribe of Aboriginal people. The town's name is believed to derive from an Aboriginal expression meaning "place of big gums shading the water hole". The earliest European settlers in the area included Andrew and Robert Scott, who established the first run of the name. The Post Office opened on 1 September 1861 and was known as Werracknebeal until 1885. Amongst the historical buildings are an 1872 prison cell built from red and yellow gum, a Tudor-style post office, several 19th-century hot ...
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Renew Economy
Renew or renewal may refer to: Media and entertainment * ''Renew'' (album), a 2002 album by The Badlees * ''Renewal'' (film), a 2008 documentary on the religious environmental movement * ''Renewal'' (magazine), a UK journal of Labour politics * ''Renewal'' (Kreator album), an album by the thrash metal band Kreator * ''Renewal'' (Billy Strings album), a 2021 studio album by bluegrass musician Billy Strings *"Renewal", a song by Norwegian Black Metal band Dimmu Borgir from their album Abrahadabra *"Renewal", an episode of the sixth season of TV series ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' * "Renewal" (''Brooklyn Nine-Nine''), an episode of the eighth season of ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' Law *Contract renewal *Copyright renewal, the act of renewing copyright *Renewal of an expiring law or Act of Parliament * Renewal (broadcasting), the act for renewing a television series for further seasons * Renewal (parliamentary procedure), bringing up a motion again that has already been disposed of by ...
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Golden Plains Wind Farm
Golden means made of, or relating to gold. Golden may also refer to: Places United Kingdom *Golden, in the parish of Probus, Cornwall *Golden Cap, Dorset *Golden Square, Soho, London *Golden Valley, a valley on the River Frome in Gloucestershire *Golden Valley, Herefordshire United States *Golden, Colorado, a town West of Denver, county seat of Jefferson County *Golden, Idaho, an unincorporated community *Golden, Illinois, a village *Golden Township, Michigan *Golden, Mississippi, a village *Golden City, Missouri, a city *Golden, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Golden, Nebraska, ghost town in Burt County *Golden Township, Holt County, Nebraska *Golden, New Mexico, a sparsely populated ghost town *Golden, Oregon, an abandoned mining town *Golden, Texas, an unincorporated community *Golden, Utah, a ghost town *Golden, Marshall County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Elsewhere *Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland, a village on the River Suir *Golden Vale, Munster, ...
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Goldwind Australia
Goldwind Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Chinese company Goldwind that builds, owns and operates wind farms and solar farm Solar may refer to: Astronomy * Of or relating to the Sun ** Solar telescope, a special purpose telescope used to observe the Sun ** A device that utilizes solar energy (e.g. "solar panels") ** Solar calendar, a calendar whose dates indicate t ...s in Australia. Wind and solar farms References External links *{{Official website, http://www.goldwindaustralia.com/, Official website Renewable energy companies of Australia ...
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Moorabool Wind Farm
Moorabool Wind Farm is an operational wind farm located 25km south east of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The wind farm is in two parts. The northern part has 50 turbines and the southern part has 54 turbines. By December 2021, all 104 turbines had been put into place. The turbines each measure 169m to the tip of the blade. Development and purpose The farm is being developed by Goldwind Australia. When operational, it will be one of three wind farms in Moorabool Shire. The others are Yaloak South Wind Farm and Lal Lal Wind Farm. When fully operational, the farm will produce up to 312MW of electricity, enough energy to power approximately 228,000 Victorian homes. The components for the southern section were delivered from the Port of Geelong The Port of Geelong is located on the shores of Corio Bay at Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The port is the sixth-largest in Australia by tonnage. Major commodities handled by the port include crude oil and petroleum products, e ...
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Macquarie Capital
Macquarie Group Limited () is an Australian global financial services group. Headquartered and listed in Australia (), Macquarie employs more than 17,000 staff in 33 markets, is the world's largest infrastructure asset manager and Australia's top ranked mergers and acquisitions adviser, with more than A$737 billion in assets under management. History 1969–1979 Macquarie was founded on 10 December 1969 as Hill Samuel Australia Limited, a subsidiary of the UK's Hill Samuel, Hill Samuel & Co. Limited. Australian businessman Stan Owens compiled a proposal for Hill Samuel & Co. to establish an Australian subsidiary. After presenting his report in London, Mr Owens was offered the role of implementing it. He became Executive Chairman of Hill Samuel Australia (HSA) and founded the company from offices at Gold Fields House in Sydney's Circular Quay. The company's first three employees were Stan Owens, Blair Hesketh and Geoff Hobson. Later Chris Castleman (on loan from the British pa ...
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Elaine, Victoria
Elaine is a town in Victoria, Australia, located on the Midland Highway between Ballarat and Geelong. At the , Elaine and the surrounding area had a population of 228. The railway came through the town in 1862, with the opening of the Geelong-Ballarat line, but Elaine railway station was only opened ten years later, and was not provided with the grand bluestone buildings provided at the original stations on the line. Today, only freight trains use the line. The Post Office opened on 1 March 1859 as Mount Doran, and was renamed Elaine in 1872. Elaine Railway Station Post Office, some distance away, opened eleven days after the station, on 14 April 1873. In 1877, the latter office was renamed Elaine, and Elaine reverted to the earlier name of Mount Doran. Elaine is home to a Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Ortho ...
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Lal Lal Wind Farm
Lal Lal Wind Farm is a wind farm under construction southeast of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The wind farm has two sections about apart. There are 38 turbines two kilometres east of Yendon and a further 22 turbines two kilometres north of Elaine. The project was developed by WestWind Energy. The proposal was bought by Macquarie Capital in 2017, and financing was completed by onselling 40% to each of Northleaf Capital Partners and InfraRed Capital with Macquarie retaining the other 20%. Renewable Energy Systems is contracted to manage the build and first five years of operation. Construction is done by Zenviron and Vestas Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines that was founded in 1945. The company operates manufacturing plants in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, India, Italy, Romania, the Uni .... During the construction phase, one of the operating wind turbines was damaged on 15 September 2019 b ...
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Wind Farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used Wind power, to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an extensive area. Wind farms can be either onshore or offshore. Many of the largest operational onshore wind farms are located in China, India, and the United States. For example, the List of onshore wind farms, largest wind farm in the world, Gansu Wind Farm in China had a capacity of over 6,000 megawatt, MW by 2012,Watts, Jonathan & Huang, CecilyWinds Of Change Blow Through China As Spending On Renewable Energy Soars ''The Guardian'', 19 March 2012, revised on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2012. with a goal of 20,000 MWFahey, JonathanIn Pictures: The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects ''Forbes'', 9 January 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2019. by 2020.Kanter, DougGansu Wind Farm ''Forbes''. Retrieved 1 ...
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Meridian Energy
Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator and retailer. The company generates the largest proportion of New Zealand's electricity, generating 35 percent of the country's electricity in the year ending December 2014, and is the fourth largest retailer, with 14 percent of market share in terms of customers as of December 2015. Meridian was one of three electricity companies formed from the break-up of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (ECNZ) in 1998–99, taking over the Waitaki River and the Manapouri hydro schemes. Originally a state-owned enterprise wholly owned by the New Zealand Government, the company was partially privatised in October 2013 by the Fifth National Government, with the government retaining a 51.02% shareholding. Today, Meridian operates seven hydroelectric power stations and one wind farm in the South Island of New Zealand, and four wind farms in the North Island. History Meridian originated from the break-up of the Electricit ...
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