Wonthaggi wind farm is a
wind power
Wind power or wind energy is mostly the use of wind turbines to electricity generation, generate electricity. Wind power is a popular, sustainable energy, sustainable, renewable energy source that has a much smaller Environmental impact of wi ...
station at
Wonthaggi
Wonthaggi is a seaside town located south east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. Known originally for its coal mining, it is now the largest town in South Gippsl ...
in
Gippsland
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,
Victoria
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,
Australia
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. It has 6
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, with a total generating capacity of 12
MW of
electricity
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.
Technical Details
Each of the turbines is a German made Senvion (formerly
REpower
Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, majority owned by a private equity firm.
Senvion as REpower Systems, as it was initially called, was established in 2001 th ...
) MM82 turbines, with a rotor diameter of 82m, and each nacelle sitting on an Australian made 69m tall tower. The farm is operated by
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Australia, and became operational in December 2005.
Blade Snapping Incident
In March 2012 one of the rotor blades snapped,
Senvion
Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, majority owned by a private equity firm.
Senvion as REpower Systems, as it was initially called, was established in 2001 th ...
(formerly
REpower
Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, majority owned by a private equity firm.
Senvion as REpower Systems, as it was initially called, was established in 2001 th ...
), the manufacturers of the turbine, replaced the blades. The fault was due to a manufacturing defect.
See also
*
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
*Wind Power page o
Wonthaggi Wind Farm
Wind farms in Victoria (Australia)
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