ACCIONA Energía has started construction work on the Mortlake South Wind Farm in Australia with an investment of around AUD288 million (US$203 million). The wind farm, located in the State of Victoria, will have a capacity of 157.5 megawatts.
Mortlake South will generate clean energy equivalent to the electricity consumption of around 115,000 Australian homes, avoiding the emission of 532,000 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere every year from coal-fired power stations. T
The Mortlake South wind farm will have 35 4.5 MW Nordex turbines with a rotor diameter of 149 metres and blades of almost 73 metres in length. It will also have an energy storage installation to improve its performance and facilitate grid integration. This storage capacity is still being evaluated, but will be somewhere between 4-5 MW.
The construction phase will include the laying of a 15-kilometre-long underground power line of 220-kilovolts (kV) as far as the substation at Terang.
