Boco Rock Wind Farm is a
wind farm
A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...
10 km southwest of
Nimmitabel in the
Snowy Mountains
The Snowy Mountains, known informally as "The Snowies", is an IBRA subregion in southern New South Wales, Australia, and is the tallest mountain range in mainland Australia, being part of the continent's Great Dividing Range, a cordillera syste ...
region of
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
, Australia. It has 67 GE 100-1.7 wind turbines with a hub height of 80m, and generates up to 113MW of electricity. It is managed by the developers,
CWP Renewables but is now owned by
EGCO.
The
engineering, procurement and construction contract for the wind farm was let in June 2013 to a consortium of
GE and
Downer EDI. The electricity generated is contracted for sale to
EnergyAustralia
EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia. It is one of the "big three" retailers in the National Electricity Market. It generates electricity primarily using ...
.
Operations
The wind farm began grid output in August 2014 and was fully commissioned in November 2014 and has operated continuously since then. The generation table use
eljmkt nemlogto obtain generation values for each month.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
References
Wind farms in New South Wales
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