Canunda Wind Farm is an Australian 46 MW
wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. This article deals only with wind power for electricity ge ...
farm.
It is jointly owned by
GDF Suez Energy AustraliaEn 72%) and
Mitsui
is a Japanese corporate group and '' keiretsu'' that traces its roots to the ''zaibatsu'' groups that were dissolved after World War II. Unlike the ''zaibatsu'' of the pre-war period, there is no controlling company with regulatory power. Ins ...
(28%). The wind yield in South Australia enables Canunda to produce electricity at a 34 per cent
capacity factor
The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that period. The theoretical maximum energy output of a given installation is def ...
, a high yield by global standards. Canunda Wind Farm was International Power's first wind farm globally. It represents a diversification of the company's energy business in Australia.
See also
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Lake Bonney Wind Farm
Lake Bonney Wind Farm is a wind farm near Millicent, South Australia, Australia. The wind farm is south of, and contiguous with, Canunda Wind Farm. Both are built along the Woakwine Range - a line of stabilised sand dunes that once were coa ...
- Adjoining Wind Farm
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Wind power in South Australia
Wind power became a significant energy source within South Australia over the first two decades of the 21st century. In 2015, there was an installed capacity of 1,475 MW, which accounted for 34% of electricity production in the state. This acco ...
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Wind power and wind farms in South Australia
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Wind farms in South Australia
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