Bright Energy Investments has started the operation of its 180 MW Warradarge wind farm located in Western Australia.
Through a staged commissioning process, the 51-turbine wind farm will power up to its full generating capacity of 180 MW by the end of October 2020.
The wind farm’s location - 15km north-east of Warradarge, 15km south-east of Eneabba, and 40km south-west of Carnamah - was chosen to take advantage of the abundant wind resources of the region and its proximity to transmission infrastructure.
Each turbine weighs 181 tonnes with 67 meter-long blades, has a hub height of 84 meters, and a height of 151 meters to the top of the blade tip.
Specialist technicians are now busy running tests on each of the turbines in turn in preparation for the generation and export from the entire wind farm into the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) following commissioning.
Bright Energy Investments is a joint venture between Western Australian state-owned utility Synergy, investment fund Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) and Australian industry superannuation fund Cbus.
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