Goulburn Post
01/09/2006 Page: 5
AS the Woodlawn bioreactor celebrates its second birthday, the owners, Veolia Environmental Services have confirmed the proposed 50MW windfarm approved for the site, is on hold.
Veolia's Shaun Rainford said the windfarm project, just one of a number of initiatives the company has for the Tarago property, would remain in the planning stage until renewable power prices were sufficient to make the larger project viable.
However, Mr Rainford said his company was working with the electrical engineering company, Jones and Rickard Pty Ltd, which has developed a new brushless twin-stator induction wind turbine machine.
"That company is working with the University of Technology, Sydney to develop the technology, and approached Collex requesting the use of the Woodlawn site to field test a single 250kW prototype wind turbine, with their new type of generator inside," he said.
"To test the new turbine, they require a windy site that can be connected to the electricity network." It will look like a normal wind turbine, have a 31 metre high tower with 14m long blades and is to be installed near the former evaporation dams for at least 12 to 18 months," he said.
"A DA for the proposed single turbine will he lodged soon with Goulburn Mulwaree Council. If approved, the turbine would be installed late in 2006 or early 2007. The single prototype turbine will he on a different part of the Woodlawn site and will not overlap in any way with the main windfarm project."
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