Bodangora Wind Farm is a 113.2 MW
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 hundre ...
owned by
Infigen Energy
Infigen Energy (Infigen), operating under this name since 29 April 2009, is a developer, owner and operator of renewable energy generation assets in Australia. Infigen's wind farm portfolio has an installed capacity of 557 MW. Most of Infigen's a ...
in the district of
Bodangora near
Wellington, New South Wales
Wellington is a city in the Central Western Slopes region of New South Wales, Australia, located at the junction of the Wambuul Macquarie and Bell Rivers. It is within the local government area of Dubbo Regional Council. The city is northwest o ...
, Australia. It consists of 33
wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...
s. The towers are 85 metres tall, and the rotor diameter is 130 metres. The wind turbine blades were manufactured in
Bergama, Turkey. The development of the project began in 2009. It received planning approval in August 2013. The wind farm was completed on 27 February 2019.
Annually it is supposed to generate on average 361 GWh of energy at capacity factor of 36.4%.
Bodangora Wind Farm has a
power purchase agreement
A power purchase agreement (PPA), or electricity power agreement, is a contract between two parties, one which generates electricity (the seller) and one which is looking to purchase electricity (the buyer). The PPA defines all of the commercial te ...
to sell 60% of the electricity generated to
EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based and listed China Light and Power (CLP Group). EnergyAustralia also ...
until the end of 2030.
Operations
The wind farm began grid commissioning in October 2018 and was fully commissioned in December 2018 and has operated continuously since then. The generation table use
eljmkt nemlogto obtain generation values for each month.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
References
{{Energy in New South Wales
Wind farms in New South Wales