Cattle Hill 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 ...
developed and constructed by
Goldwind Australia
Goldwind Australia is the Australian subsidiary of Chinese company Goldwind that builds, owns and operates wind farms and solar farm
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale ...
in
Tasmania
Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...
, Australia.
The site is located on the eastern shore of
Lake Echo on the southern side of the Central Plateau of Tasmania and connects into
TasNetworks
TasNetworks is a Government of Tasmania State owned company that is responsible for electricity transmission and distribution throughout Tasmania, Australia. It also owns and operates a telecommunications network throughout the state.
TasNetw ...
's transmission network at the adjacent
Waddamana substation.
The facility began construction in 2018 and was completed in 2020 with the installation of 48 Goldwind GW140 3MW turbines, each standing at 170m tall.
The wind farm's output of 144MW is equivalent to the consumption of approximately 63,000 homes.
Cattle Hill wind farm starts sending power to the grid in Tasmania
RenewEconomy
Operations
The generation table uses eljmkt nemlog, a tracker for the Australian National Energy Market, to obtain generation values for each month. Grid connection started in January 2020, and was fully commissioned in August 2020.
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
References
External links
Cattle Hill Wind Farm website
Energy infrastructure completed in 2020
Wind farms in Tasmania
2020 establishments in Australia
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