ABC Online,
July 11, 2006. 9:30am (AEST)
South Australia's green energy targets have been given a boost with a decision to build a wind farm near Port Augusta. The company involved with the Lincoln Gap project, Wind Energy Solutions, says the project will create a up to 60 full-time jobs during construction. Company director Shane Darcy says the company chose South Australia because of the State Government's green energy policies. "We are quite happy to have been involved in windfarming in South Australia, South Australia is a very progressive state, forward looking, much more so than the Federal Government in that they themselves [are] setting targets for renewable energy in the state," he said.
Nearly 60 turbines will be built at the site, south-west of Port Augusta, sometime next year. Mr Darcy says it's not the only project it has planned in the state. "We are looking at several other sites at the moment; it'll just be a case of which one would come first, we have a list of certain criteria that will need to be fulfilled and we need to look at the wind farm for about 12 months before we can make any decision on the viability of the farm," he said. "At the moment, pole position is the Lincoln Gap farm.
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