Two new wind farms in Victoria are now up and running, less than a year after construction began in March 2018.
The two farms, delivered by global renewable energy developer, service provider and wholesaler, BayWa r.e., are located at Timboon West and Yawong.
The project sites are amongst the windiest in Victoria and each consist of two Vestas V126 3.6 MW turbines, stretching up to 150m tall at the tip of the blade.
Together, the wind farms represent the next stage of BayWa r.e.’s wind energy plans in Australia, and with a capacity of 14.4 MW will produce enough clean energy to power 9000 Australian homes.
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Managing Director of BayWa r.e. Wind David Shapero said, “We’re thrilled to have the first wind farms in our project pipeline for Australia fully operational and generating renewable energy in such a short space of time”.
“Honouring our commitment to work with local communities wherever we operate, the projects will help to support an agricultural education programme at the Timboon P-12 School and will help provide the local Charlton Lions Club with a community car for transporting people in need to medical appointments,” he said.
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The wind farms will be sold together with 15-year O&M contracts with Vestas in place, and PPAs secured to sell 100 per cent of the power to Alinta Energy.
BayWa r.e. will continue to be part of the projects as it provides ongoing commercial and technical management of the wind farms through its team in Melbourne.
BayWa r.e has three further wind farms expected to be fully operational by summer 2020.
Ferguson and Diapur Wind Farms and the Jung Wind and Solar Hybrid project are all on track for construction to commence this year.
