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Wind energy

The Coast With The Most: Two New U.S. Offshore Wind Farms Will Use The World’s Most Powerful Turbines

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2019
Renewable energy company Ørsted knows a few things about the benefits of being first. In 1991, the company built the world’s first offshore wind farm a mile from the Danish coast, near the island of Lolland. By today’s standards, Vindeby — a 5-megawatt farm — was a minnow with its 11 turbines.
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Bodangora by drone: A young filmmaker shoots the breeze

Natalie Filatoff
November 29, 2018
Steering a drone around a wind turbine while maintaining perspective on the images captured by a drone-mounted video camera requires skill, focus, and absolute certainty of where the drone is in relation to its subject.
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Wellington wind: a new resource in times of drought

Natalie Filatoff
August 28, 2018
Five-year-old Wellingtonian, Albert Rich, has ambitions to be “a wind farm builder”. At home and at preschool, he convinces his friends to take part in constructing turbines from cardboard tubing and any likely blade materials to hand, sometimes trucking them in from … another room.
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Wind farm safety in the spotlight

Jane Nicholls
July 31, 2018
In a motel in Kingaroy, outback Queensland, this training session is instantly distinct from familiar corporate-education days: the facilitator has set off passionate discussions before the participants have even finished their first coffee. “What are the top dangers you have little or no control of when you’re at work?” he asks. The focus in the room is unwavering as he writes up the answers they call out on the whiteboard. Forget the standard workplace gripes of inbox overload, pointless meetings, stolen lunches from the communal fridge.
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Forecast: more wind energy for New South Wales

Jane Nicholls
June 12, 2018
Wind-energy speed is picking up across Australia. GE will supply 37 turbines for the new 134MW Crudine Ridge Wind Farm near Pyramul, 45km south of Mudgee, central-west New South Wales’ famed wine and food destination.
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Australia’s biggest wind farm comes to the Sunshine State

Jane Nicholls
August 17, 2017
By 2019, 123 turbines will be spinning 453MW of energy at Coopers Gap Wind Farm, between Kingaroy and Dalby in Queensland. The announcement on August 17 of Australia’s biggest wind farm is the result of creative collaboration and supple engineering solutions.
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Wind in the Willogoleches

Natalie Filatoff
August 07, 2017
An incredible wind resource and progressive state-government policies sowed the seeds of South Australia’s renewable-energy bonanza. Now GE’s latest wind turbine, a new wind farm and a fresh take on a power partnership are redrawing the lines of productivity for renewable energy on the edge of the Flinders Ranges.
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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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