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Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm is situated on a coastal ridge 16 kilometres west of Esperance in Wind farms in Western Australia
The farm was established in October 1993, after the successful operation of a smaller experimental wind farm at Salmon Beach, Esperance. Esperance is an isolated town and it is not connected to the electricity grid. Before the installation of wind turbines, the electrical needs of Esperance town and surrounding districts were supplied solely from a diesel power station. The Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm serves the Esperance community in conjunction with the power station and complements the electricity generated by the gas turbines.
Considerable care has been taken in the design and construction of the wind farm to ensure the least possible disturbance to the natural environment.
Wind energy in Western Australia
{{Coord, 33, 52, 38, S, 121, 45, 44, E, display=title Goldfields-Esperance Wind farms in Western Australia
Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm is situated on a coastal ridge 16 kilometres west of Esperance in Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
, and it lies in the northern extremities of the reliable Roaring Forties winds. It was Australia's first commercial 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 Wind power, to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundre ...
that is still operating, and consists of nine 225 kW Vestas 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 generating capacity of just over 2 Megawatts.The farm was established in October 1993, after the successful operation of a smaller experimental wind farm at Salmon Beach, Esperance. Esperance is an isolated town and it is not connected to the electricity grid. Before the installation of wind turbines, the electrical needs of Esperance town and surrounding districts were supplied solely from a diesel power station. The Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm serves the Esperance community in conjunction with the power station and complements the electricity generated by the gas turbines.
Considerable care has been taken in the design and construction of the wind farm to ensure the least possible disturbance to the natural environment.
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 ...
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Wind energy in Western Australia
{{Coord, 33, 52, 38, S, 121, 45, 44, E, display=title Goldfields-Esperance Wind farms in Western Australia