Moorabool Project
Some brief points:
Location: approximately 5km south of Ballan, Moorabool Shire.
Installed capacity 321 Megawatts (MW).
Expected generation 843,588 Megawatt hours (MWh) each year.
Homes powered equivalent to the consumption of 158,000 homes.
Greenhouse savings 843,588 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
Wind turbines 107 wind turbines.
Site area 5600ha.
Site coverage less than 0.67% of the site.
Shire rates More than $262,000 each year.
Employment estimate 100 (construction) 30 (operational).
Development cost minimum of $600m.
Landholders 16.
Project life 25 to 35 years.
Project status Approved November 2010.
Further information available here.
The announcement on the approval can be found here.


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