Alinta wind farm (also known as Walkaway wind farm) is a

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station at Walkaway, just south of

Geraldton Geraldton (Wajarri language, Wajarri: ''Jambinu'', Wilunyu language, Wilunyu: ''Jambinbirri'') is a coastal city in the Mid West (Western Australia), Mid West region of Western Australia, north of the state capital, Perth. As of the , Geraldt ...

, Western Australia.Major WA Initiatives
''sedo.energy.wa.gov.au'' It is owned by

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and has offtake agreements with

Alinta Energy Alinta Energy is an Australian electricity generating and gas retailing private company owned by Hong Kong–based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE). The sale for $4 billion was approved by Treasurer Scott Morrison in 2017. Alinta Energy has an ...

and

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. The Alinta wind farm has an installed capacity of 89.1 megawatts. It supplies Perth and the south west in the

South West Interconnected System The South West Interconnected System (SWIS) is an electricity grid in the southwestern part of Western Australia. It extends to the coast in the south and west, to Kalbarri in the north and Kalgoorlie in the east. It is not connected to the othe ...

(SWIS). Each year the wind farm generates energy that would normally produce 360,150 tonnes of

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if generated by

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–based methods. This is the equivalent of removing 76,000 cars from the roads. Electricity produced by the wind farm is purchased mainly by

. In June 2022, one of the turbines collapsed, causing the wind farm to be temporarily shut down.

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