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"A mini wind farm in New South Wales is repowering with new two megawatt (MW)
turbines, and hopes to give the old ones a second life elsewhere in Australia.
But in a wearisome repeat of the relentless campaigns against wind projects,
even this tiny, two turbine wind farm has come under fire as opponents spread
incorrect information against it.
Owner Windfarm 1, a private company which owns the land, is planning to
decommission the 24-year-old Vestas V47 660 kilowatt (kW) turbines in Hampton,
a town about 26km south of Lithgow, and replace them with a model that is the
smallest available today, at 2 MW.
The old turbines, which are listed as a tourist attraction on the Tourism
Lithgow website, have a tip height of 73.5m and were finished in 2001 on a
budget of just $2.5 million.
The proposed new machines are Vestas V80-2.0 MW models, which have a tip height
of 120m – still relatively small by current standards – with a total capital
cost expected to come in at $12.71 million.
But Windfarm 1 is doing its upgrade in a very different era, and the
development application is full of reminders that the wind farm is now a piece
of local heritage in its own right.
“It is acknowledged that [Lithgow] Council does not favour large expanses of
land being covered with solar energy or wind farms where there is significant
cumulative impact,” the application says.
“The two proposed wind farms are replacement of two existing turbines which
have been operational on the subject site for over twenty years,” the
development application says.
“[The] two new turbines are replacements of the existing two turbines which
have been operational for over 20 years with no known such adverse impacts [on
grazing, farming, residential, tourism, business and forestry practices.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
