AUSTRALIA IN GIANT WIND FARM PLAN

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Australia in giant wind farm plan
The area is said to have Australia’s best wind resources
Plans
to build Australia’s largest wind farm have been announced by the
German company Conergy.The project would involve installing about 500
turbines near the outback town of Broken Hill in New South Wales.The
Australian government wants renewable sources to generate 15% of the
country’s energy needs by 2020.The giant wind farm could generate
enough electricity for 400,000 homes and put quite a dent in
Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.Research has shown that the
sparsely populated site is particularly blustery.Scientists have said
it has some of Australia’s “best wind resources”.

Overwhelming’ support
The
$1.8bn project is the idea of Conergy – one of Germany’s largest solar
power companies.A spokesman for the firm said construction of the
facility was expected to begin in 2009 and would take about three to
four years to complete.

Negotiations with landowners have already begun.
The
ambitious development would transform this dusty corner of Australia’s
interior.The region was the back-drop for the post-apocalyptic movie
Mad Max 2, released in the early 1980s.Conergy has said there is
overwhelming support for the project – both in the local community and
from environmentalists. 

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October 8, 2007 at 9:49 AM