The Woodlawn Wind Farm is a

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located near Bungendore, New South Wales. It is part of the Capital Renewable Energy Precinct, along with nearby

Capital Wind Farm The Capital Wind Farm near Bungendore is the largest wind farm in New South Wales. It is part of the Capital Renewable Energy Precinct, along with nearby Woodlawn Wind Farm and the Capital East Solar Demonstration Plant. Capital Wind Farm was ...

and the Woodlawn

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. Woodlawn Wind Farm was owner and operator

Infigen Energy Infigen Energy (Infigen), operating under this name since 29 April 2009, is a developer, owner and operator of renewable energy generation assets in Australia. Infigen's wind farm portfolio has an installed capacity of 557 MW. Most of Infigen's a ...

's sixth Australian wind farm. It is a 48.3

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wind farm with 23 turbines. The energy produced by the wind farm can power around 32,000 average Australian households per year, saving over 138,000 tonnes of

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per year.

Location

The Woodlawn Wind Farm is near

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and Bungendore, adjacent to

Timeline

The New South Wales Minister for Planning issued Conditions of Approval for the project on 4 October 2005. Infigen announced it had issued a notice to proceed with the construction of the wind farm on 28 June 2010. The wind farm achieved practical completion on 17 October 2011.

Run with the Wind fun run

''Run with the Wind'' is a community fun run amongst the wind turbines at the Woodlawn Wind Farm. Held every year on a Sunday morning sometime in October or November since 2012, the fun run is hosted as a wind farm open day by the owner-operator of the wind farm,

. Net proceeds from tickets sales go to the local community groups and volunteers. Since 2013 the event runs two races: a 5 km and a 10 km race. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 the 10 km race was won by and Australian Olympian runner Martin Dent.

Funding

To help fund the construction of the wind farm, Infigen Energy signed a A$55 million project finance debt facility agreement with

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. It is thought that this is the first project financing of a merchant wind farm in Australia. The total project cost was A$115 million.

References

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Location

Timeline

Run with the Wind fun run

Funding

See also

References