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75 turbines lead the wind parade

Jane Nicholls
June 27, 2017
It’s spinning enough energy to power the equivalent of 120,000 homes. It was the first wind-farm project signed after restoration of the renewable energy target (RET) in 2015. Its 75 GE 3.2-103 turbines add up to 240MW, making it the third-largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Towers of power coming to Crookwell

June 07, 2017
The Prell family has been farming near Crookwell, in the tablelands atop the Great Dividing Range, for 120 years. For 17 of those trips around the sun, Charlie Prell has been waiting for wind. That’s how many years ago he was first approached about hosting wind turbines on his property. In the intervening years, sheep farmer Prell muses, “I’ve gained a lot of experience about how it all works—the politics and economics involved in renewable energy.”
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To build a wind farm, it takes a village...

April 05, 2017
Wind-farm prospector Frank Boland first met with farmers at the Lion of Waterloo in 2009, to discuss them hosting turbines on their land. Late the previous year, Boland, who leads the development team for renewable-energy company Infigen Energy, had used meta-scale wind modelling to identify Bodangora, near Wellington in central NSW, as a prime area to farm wind.
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Silverton’s new treasure: wind energy

January 19, 2017
A high-energy blockbuster is about to start production just outside Silverton, the historic silver-mining town and famed film location near Broken Hill, NSW. Movies shot in the quintessential Australian outback setting include Mad Max and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The village will soon be abuzz again, as hundreds of workers arrive to harvest a fortune that’s way more certain than either silver mining or movie making: wind energy.
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7 bright ideas on renewable energy

December 16, 2016
Meet Nick Miller, a US power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here's a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together.
His work in applied engineering and research over the past 36 years has amassed a sheaf of patents; many relating to the control systems of  GE wind turbines and wind farms are designed to make these renewable powerhouses ever better citizens on the world’s electricity grids.
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The clean slate: Summit drives renewable energy ideas

August 05, 2016
It was plug and play for the renewable energy community, at the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2016, held last week in Sydney.
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Financing a flourishing clean-energy industry

July 28, 2016
Power purchase agreements for renewable energy may be blowing in the wind, but Jason Willoughby, managing director of GE Energy Financial Services in Australia and New Zealand, proposes a fresh approach to getting wind-farm projects up and running, and acing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target.
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, set in June last year, is a huge opportunity to deliver almost a quarter of our power needs, or 33,000 GWh, of renewable energy by 2020 in the lowest-cost, most reliable way.
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Wise words on wind energy

June 22, 2016
Izzie Pope took the stage after the premier, the minister, the deputy mayor and the chief operating officer. No disrespect to the heavy hitters, but it was the Year 12 student who delivered a beautifully considered speech to the hundreds in attendance at the Ararat Wind Farm Bring on the Blades celebration. A sound bite: “When the 46th anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated globally this year, Generation Z looked on in mild confusion, because we don’t need a special day for considering our environmental impact … every day is a day for sustainable living.”
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Ararat Wind Farm: bring on the blades!

June 22, 2016
The official ground-breaking for Ararat Wind Farm was only in November 2015, but construction is in full swing at the site, which stretches across prime wind positions atop Victoria’s Great Dividing Range and is set to be Australia’s third-largest wind farm, 180km north-west of Melbourne .
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Turbine blade puts fresh spin on renewable energy

June 22, 2016
When Victoria’s Labor Premier Daniel Andrews this week signed his name on the first GE wind-turbine blade to arrive for the Ararat Wind Farm, he also wrote on the gleaming fibreglass surface his government’s brand-new pledge to the Victorian people—to have the state running on 25% renewable energy by the year 2020, and to increase that to 40% renewable energy by the year 2025!
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