Cattle Hill Wind Farm is a wind farm project developed and constructed by
Goldwind Australia
Goldwind Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Chinese company Goldwind that builds, owns and operates wind farms and solar farm
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, in
Tasmania
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The site is located on the eastern shore of
Lake Echo on the southern side of the Central Plateau of Tasmania and connects into
TasNetworks's transmission network at the adjacent
Waddamana
Waddamana is a rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Central Highlands in the Central LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about north of the town of Hamilton. The 2016 census has a population of 4 for the state suburb of Wa ...
Substation.
The facility began construction in 2018 and was completed in 2020 with the installation of 48 Goldwind GW140 3MW turbines, each standing at 170m tall.
The wind farm's output of 144MW is equivalent to the consumption of approximately 63,000 homes.
Operations
The generation table uses "eljmkt nemlog", a tracker for the Australian National Energy Market, to obtain generation values for each month. Grid connection started in January 2020, and was fully commissioned in August 2020.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
See also
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Wind power in Australia
Wind power is one of the main renewable energy sources in Australia contributing 10% of Australia's total electricity supply in 2020, and making up 37.5% of it's renewable energy supply. Wind resource testing conditions in Australia are opti ...
References
External links
Cattle Hill Wind Farm website
Wind farms in Tasmania
Proposed wind farms in Australia
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