Cherry Tree Wind Farm

Cherry Tree Wind Farm is a small wind farm located approximately 15km south-east of Seymour, Victoria.[1] The 16 turbine, 57.6 MW farm was developed and constructed by Infigen Energy for John Laing Group. Construction started in January 2019 and was operational in June 2020.

Cherry Tree Wind Farm
CountryAustralia
LocationSouth of Seymour, Victoria
Coordinates37.10°S 145.26°E / -37.10; 145.26
StatusOperational
Construction beganJanuary 2019
Commission dateJune 2020
Owner(s)John Laing Group
Operator(s)Vestas
Wind farm
TypeOnshore
Hub height91 m (299 ft)
Rotor diameter136 m (446 ft)
Rated wind speed13 m/s (43 ft/s)
Power generation
Units operational16 × 3.6 MW
Make and modelVestas V136
Nameplate capacity57.6 MW
Capacity factor36% (expected)
Annual net output182 GWh (expected)

Operations

The wind farm began grid commissioning in May 2020 and was fully commissioned in June 2020 and has operated continuously since then. The generation table uses eljmkt nemlog to obtain generation values for each month. The URL must be formatted as: "http://nemlog.com.au/show/unit/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDD/?k1=GENCODE" Cherry Tree's code is CHYTWF1, so that is used.

Cherry Tree Wind Farm Generation (MWh)
Year Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2020 121,881 N/A N/A N/A N/A 9,082* 8,396* 15,778 16,703 18,441 18,139 17,074 18,268
2021 18,526

Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.

References
  1. "Cherry Tree Wind Farm" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
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