Sapphire Wind Farm

Sapphire Wind Farm is a wind farm in the Australian state of New South Wales. When it was built in 2018, it was the largest wind farm in New South Wales. It is in the New England region of northern New South Wales, 28 kilometres (17 mi) east of Inverell and 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Glen Innes.[1] The farm covers approximately 8921 hectares of cleared grazing land, and has an elevation of about 750 to 1100m.[2] It is north of the Gwydir Highway. The White Rock and Glen Innes Wind Farms are south of the highway closer to Glen Innes.[3] It is intended to be colocated with a 200 MW solar farm.[4] The wind farm contains 75 Vestas V126 turbines, each of which can generate 3.6 MW of electricity. They have a 137-metre hub height and 126-metre rotor diameter.[5] The project is approved to build up to 109 wind turbines.[6]

Sapphire Wind Farm
CountryAustralia
LocationSwan Vale, New South Wales
Coordinates29.70°S 151.41°E / -29.70; 151.41
StatusOperational
Construction beganJanuary 2017
Commission dateDecember 2017
Construction costA$590m
Operator(s)CWP Renewables
Wind farm
TypeOnshore
Hub height137 metres (449 ft)
Rotor diameter126 metres (413 ft)
Site area8,921 hectares (89.21 km2)
Site elevation750 to 1,100 metres (2,460 to 3,610 ft)
Power generation
Units operational75 × 3.6 MW
Make and modelVestas V126
Nameplate capacity270 MW
Capacity factor33.67% (average 2019, 2020)
Annual net output796.3 GWh (average 2019, 2020)
External links
Websitehttps://www.sapphirewindfarm.com.au/

Operations

The wind farm began grid commissioning in February 2018 and was fully commissioned in November 2018[1] 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" Sapphire's code is SAPHWF1, so that is used.

Sapphire Wind Farm Generation (MWh)
Year Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2018 393,832 N/A 7,017* 16,704* 15,825* 11,046* 22,676* 27,450* 42,688* 49,170* 56,579* 71,738* 72,939
2019 799,631 49,773 84,005 76,554 82,732 65,551 53,708 64,703 56,076 66,872 59,143 67,655 72,859
2020 792,937 59,109 72,791 80,528 52,023 63,037 48,551 64,676 68,845 81,472 62,813 61,515 77,577
2021 68,573

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

References
  1. "Sapphire Wind Farm". CWP Renewables. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. "Compliance Report Sapphire Wind Farm, NSW EPBC 2011/5854" (PDF). Retrieved 28 October 2020.
  3. "Sapphire Wind Farm Map" (PDF). CWP Renewables. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  4. "Sapphire Solar". CWP Renewables. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  5. "Video - Sarens Tops the Tallest Turbine in Australia – Heavy Lift News". www.heavyliftnews.com. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  6. "Sapphire Wind Farm". Inverell Shire Council. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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