Badgingarra Wind Farm is a
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 to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turb ...
in the locality of
Hill River northwest of the town of
Badgingarra in
Western Australia
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, about north of
Perth
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. It is owned by
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and located immediately north of the older
Emu Downs Wind Farm
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which has the same owner.
Construction of Badgingarra Wind Farm began in November 2017 and it was completed in early 2019. It consists of 37
Siemens wind turbine generators, each generating 3.6 MW of electricity. The turbine hubs are above the ground, and the rotor tips reach .
APA Group is also constructing the
Badgingarra Solar Farm adjacent to the wind farm to provide 17.5 MW of solar photovoltaic generation.
Badgingarra Wind Farm was officially opened by the Western Australian Energy Minister,
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on 2 May 2019. It is connected to the
Western Power
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Alinta Energy
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until the end of 2035.
The wind farm is expected to generate 500–550 GWh of energy per annum.
Operations
AEMO records begin in January 2019 for the wind farm. The generation table use
AEMO Facility SCADAto obtain generation values for each month.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
References
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Wheatbelt (Western Australia)
Wind farms in Western Australia