Townsville Bulletin
Wednesday 7/11/2007 Page: 27
AGL Energy Ltd is set to build another wind farm in South Australia. The 71-megawatt wind farm will be at Hallett Hill, 170km north of Adelaide, and will have a development cost of about $166 million. The project will create 150 jobs during the construction phase, and will be the third wind farm under the management of AGL. The farm is expected to become commercially operational around November 2009.
AGL managing director Michael Fraser said the project reinforced the leadership position the company was taking in Australia's renewable energy sector. When commissioned in 2009, the wind farm will provide enough renewable energy to power 40,000 average Australian households and abate approximately 250,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide," he said.
2 comments:
I have heard from a couple of people in the wind industry that this and other wind farms are going ahead because NSW is in the market for renewable energy (they have a 15% renewable energy target by 2020, if I remember rightly). NSW does not have as many good wind farm sites as SA and will be buying renewable energy from SA to make up their quota.
At the same time, the SA (Rann) government seems to be counting the output from the proposed Hallett Hill wind farm toward their renewable energy target.
Seems to me that this is counting the same renewable energy twice - for political purposes?
You could be right, pollies prefer to look like they're doing something - the truth however is a secondary issue. Ref. JWH
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