EP Wind Power Firing

Stock Journal, Page: 16
Thursday, 30 March 2006

POWER from the Mount Millar Wind Farm between Cleve and Cowell on EP is being delivered into South Australian homes and businesses. The first of the 35 wind turbines at the farm began generating power on February 23 and the remainder of the turbines will be gradually brought online as commissioning progresses.

Tarong Energy project manager Nic Buckley said the Mount Millar Wind Farm would complement Tarong's other SA wind farm - the 34.5 megawatt Starfish Hill Wind Farm -completed in December 2003. Construction work on the Mount Millar project began In December 2004 and it is expected that, once fully operational, the farm will generate 70MW of electricity, enough for about 36,000 typical households, and reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by up to 4.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent during its expected 25-year life.