Musselroe 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 ...
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Australia. It was the third wind farm built in the state, following the Bluff Point and Studland Bay Wind Farms (making up the larger Woolnorth Wind Farm).
While it is operated by
Hydro Tasmania
Hydro Tasmania, known for most of its history as the Hydro-Electric Commission (HEC) or The Hydro, is the trading name of the Hydro-Electric Corporation, a Tasmanian Government business enterprise which is the predominant electricity generator i ...
, which has a 25% stake in the farm, China-based Shenhua Clean Energy (SCE) owns a 75% stake in the farm. Guohua Energy Investment owns a 75% share in SCE, while its sister company, Shenhua Hong Kong, owning the remaining 25% share in SCE.
The farm consists of 56 Vestas V90-3MW wind turbines, with a generating capacity of 168 MW. The energy output from the Musselroe Wind Farm will be sufficient to supply electricity to around 50,000 households and abate 450,000 tonnes of emissions annually.
The first 37 turbines were connected to the grid in 2013, and the full farm was completed in January 2014.
Operations
The generation table use
eljmkt nemlogto obtain generation values for each month. Grid connection started in March 2013, and was fully commissioned during September 2013.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
Note: From 2018, the wind farm participated in the
FCAS market; this generally reduces the amount of power provided to the grid in order to allow a ramp up when required. The wind farm now has an apparent limit of ≈153 MW, rarely returning to its previous maximum output of around ≈166 MW when the grid demands it.
See also
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List of wind farms in Tasmania
This is a list of active power stations in Tasmania, Australia. Candidates for this list must already be commissioned and capable of generating or more of electricity.
Gas Thermal gas
These power stations use gas combustion to power steam ...
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List of wind farms in Australia
This is a list of wind farms in Australia, with a generating capacity of more than 50 MW, which are operating, under construction, or for which planning approval has been received.
Operating
Under construction
Large wind farms approved and und ...
References
External links
Hydro Tasmania - Musselroe Wind Farm
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Wind farms in Tasmania