Crookwell Wind Farm, located at
Crookwell
Crookwell is a small town located in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in the Upper Lachlan Shire. At the , Crookwell had a population of 2,641. The town is at a relatively high altitude of 887 metres and there are several sn ...
west of
Goulburn
Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters pate ...
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, consists of eight 600 kW
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 giving a total capacity of 4.8 MW. It was the first grid-connected
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 Australia when built by
Pacific Power in 1998. It is now owned by
Tilt Renewables
Tilt Renewables Pty Ltd is an Australian electricity generation company. It was previously dual listed on the New Zealand stock exchange and Australian stock exchange. As of 2022, the Powering Australian Renewables has merged with Tilt Renewable ...
.
The farm was the largest wind farm in Australia when built, with the energy produced bought and on-sold to customers by then energy retailer Great Southern Energy.
Crookwell 2
Phase two of the Crookwell Wind Farm, planned to have an installed capacity of 92 MW, is under construction since 2009. it was officially opened in November 2018. In 2017, a modification to the wind farm development was approved, allowing an increase in the hub height from 80m to 95m, blade size from 47 to 64m, rotor diameter from 96 to 130m and blade tip height from 128 to 160m.
It is expected to generate 300 GWh of energy per year, at a corresponding capacity factor of 36%.
Operations
First generation started in August 2018, and reached full production in December 2018. The generation table use
eljmkt nemlogto obtain generation values for each month.
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 optim ...
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List of wind farms in New South Wales
References
External links
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Eraring Energy
Eraring Energy was an electricity generation company in Australia that was owned by the Government of New South Wales, and had a portfolio of generating sites using thermal coal, wind, and hydroelectric power. It was sold to Origin Energy in ...
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Crookwell Wind Farm
Wind farms in New South Wales
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