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GLOBAL RENEWABLES ONLINE - JANUARY 2012
WIND - RES PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
T
HE COMPANY SAYS
it
“possesses all the skills and
experience required to design,
develop, build and operate a
successful wind farm, from
choosing sites and designing the
project, through the planning and
consenting stage, right up to the
construction and operation of a
generating wind farm.” RES projects
are “designed to generate power at
the most competitive prices, with
minimal impact on the environ-
ment.”
**Penshurst Wind Farm
RES is developing a wind farm on
rural land which is located
approximately 3km south-west of
the township of Penshurst in
Victoria. The area of interest lies to
the south of the Macarthur -
Penshurst Road and to the west of
the Penshurst - Warrnambool Road,
as shown in the location map below:
A team of experienced planning
professionals, developers and engi-
neers have been investigating the
Penshurst site since 2006. The
company’s sophisticated mapping
software has allowed them to
identify Penshurst as a suitable
location and will allow RES to plan
turbine locations according to a
number of environmental, cultural
heritage, visual and acoustic
constraints.
In late 2006 RES erected a
meteorological mast to perform wind
monitoring approximately 7km to
the south of Penshurst. More
recently another wind monitoring
mast has been erected approxi-
mately 11km south-west of
Penshurst.
Over the past 12 months RES has
also been undertaking numerous
environmental, archaeological, en-
gineering and technical onsite
investigations to determine the size,
location and number of wind
turbines to be involved in the
project. These investigations have
indicated that the wind farm site
may have the potential to house up
to 223 wind turbine generators in
the area.
The final number, height and
capacity of the wind turbines to be
utilised on the site are yet to be
determined, but the maximum
height of each turbine could
potentially be is 175 metres from the
ground to the blade tip. The capacity
of each turbine will be in the region
of 3.4MW, which would result in a
maximum installed capacity for the
Penshurst Wind Farm of around
758MW, depending on the precise
wind turbine model selected.
WHY PENSHURST?
The proposed Penshurst site is an
ideal location for a wind farm
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT:
RES AUSTRALIA’S
PENSHURST
WINDFARM
RES, AN AUSTRALIAN COMPANY
INCEPTED IN 2004, HAS BEEN
DEVELOPING A PIPELINE OF WIND
FARM PROJECTS IN AUSTRALIA
AND NEW ZEALAND.