Codrington 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 ...
near
Yambuk on the coast of south-western
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in ...
.
Completed in June 2001, the 18.2
MW installation of 14
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 yea ...
s generates 51 GWh annually, for a capital cost of A$30 million by
Pacific Hydro being the first fully private investment in a wind farm in Australia. When opened it was Australia's largest wind farm and the first in Victoria.
The Yambuk wind farm (Part of the
Portland Wind Farm
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The Portland wind farm is one of Australia's largest wind farms. Located on the coast of south-western Victoria near the city of Portland, it consists of four separate sites, all of which have been completed as of 2015. Completion of t ...
project) is directly adjacent to the Codrington Wind Farm. It has a total of 30MW in its 20 turbines.
See also
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Portland Wind Farm
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The Portland wind farm is one of Australia's largest wind farms. Located on the coast of south-western Victoria near the city of Portland, it consists of four separate sites, all of which have been completed as of 2015. Completion of t ...
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Wind power in Australia
External links
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Pacific Hydro page o
Codrington Wind Farm
Wind farms in Victoria (Australia)
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