White Rock Wind Farm

White Rock Wind Farm is a wind farm in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is in the New England region of northern New South Wales, 40 kilometres (25 mi) east of Inverell and 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Glen Innes. It is south of the Gwydir Highway. The Sapphire Wind Farm is north of the highway and Glen Innes Wind Farm is south of the highway closer to Glen Innes.[1] It is approved for up to 119 wind turbines, and stage 1 has been completed with 70 turbines.[2] In 2011 it had an estimated construction cost of A$450m.[3]

White Rock Wind Farm
CountryAustralia
LocationGlen Innes, New South Wales
Coordinates29.79°S 151.54°E / -29.79; 151.54
StatusOperational
Construction beganMay 2016
Commission dateAugust 2017
Construction costA$450m (Stage 1 & 2) (2011 dollars)
Owner(s)Goldwind Australia
Wind farm
TypeOnshore
Hub height89.5 metres (294 ft)
Rotor diameter121 metres (397 ft)
Power generation
Units operational70 × 2.5 MW
Make and modelGoldwind 121
Nameplate capacity175 MW
Capacity factor33.64% (average 2018-2020)
Annual net output515.7 GWh (average 2018-2020)
External links
Websitehttps://whiterockwindfarm.com/

Operations

The wind farm began increasing output grid power in July 2017 and was fully commissioned in February 2018 and has operated 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" White Rock's code is WRWF1, so that is used.

White Rock Wind Farm Generation (MWh)
Year Total Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 80,622 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 1,563* 15,204* 10,029* 17,452* 18,473* 17,901*
2018 520,686 30,826* 47,075* 51,720 47,184 39,874 46,462 43,343 49,259 40,780 40,160 39,692* 44,311
2019 525,373 30,786 56,922 44,355 50,959 43,413 44,342 49,503 37,389 45,090 34,497 42,634 45,483
2020 501,095 33,449 43,159 54,146 29,951 44,302 36,758 45,327 51,724 48,544 32,179 32,371 49,185
2021 43,138

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

References
  1. "Sapphire Wind Farm Map" (PDF). CWP Renewables. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. "White Rock Wind Farm". White Rock Wind Farm. Goldwind. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  3. "White Rock WindFarm Environmental Assessment" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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