Desalination by wind

Manly Daily
Wednesday 14/5/2008 Page: 5

THE NSW Government has agreed to a 20-year energy supply deal to ensure wind turbines will power Sydney's desalination plant. Premier Morris Iemma said the deal would link Sydney Water to the Babcock and Brown - backed Capital Wind Farm being built at Bungendore, near Queanbeyan in southern NSW. "I always said the Government would insist the desalination plant will be powered 100 per cent by clean green energy and today we're delivering that," Mr lemma said. "This will be Australia's biggest accredited renewable energy contract." The contract requires Sydney Water to buy a minimum 180,000 Renewable Energy Certificates every year for 20 years.