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The Macarthur Wind Farm is a wind farm located in Macarthur, Victoria, Australia, near Hamilton, 260 km west of Melbourne. It is on a 5,500 ha site which has an installed capacity of 420 megawatts (MW).[2][3] Based on a capacity factor of around 35%, it is estimated that the long-term average generation will be approximately 1,250 GWh per year. Its actual capacity factor is much lower, with a historical average of 26.29% since 2013.

Macarthur Wind Farm
Country	Australia
Location	Victoria
Coordinates	38.049005°S 142.1905876°E / -38.049005; 142.1905876
Status	Operational[1]
Commission date	Jan 2013
Construction cost	A$1b
Owner(s)	H. R. L. Morrison & Co / Malakoff
Operator(s)	AGL Energy
Wind farm
Type	Onshore
Hub height	85 metres
Rotor diameter	112 metres
Site elevation	165 metres
Power generation
Units operational	140
Make and model	Vestas V112-3.0MW
Nameplate capacity	420 MW[1]
Capacity factor	26.29% (average 2013-2020)
Annual net output	967.3 GWh (average 2013-2020)
External links
Website	www.agl.com.au/about-agl/how-we-source-energy/renewable-energy/macarthur-wind-farm
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It is the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere generating enough power for 220,000 homes and abating 1.7 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, at a capacity factor of 35%.[4] The wind farm comprises 140 Vestas V112-3.0MW wind turbines manufactured in Denmark.[2]

The project cost about A$1 billion and was fully operational in January 2013.[1] It was constructed by Vestas and Leighton Contractors.[5] The first turbines were connected to the grid in September 2012.[6] AGL also invested an additional $27m in the substation, which is completely owned by the company.

History

The project was proposed in 2004 and approved by the Victorian government in October 2006.

The project was developed by a joint venture formed by AGL Energy and Meridian Energy, a New Zealand-based power generating company, with works starting in 2010. The project was fully operational in January 2013.[1]

In 2013, Meridian sold its 50% share in the wind farm to Malaysian power company Malakoff Corporation Berhad for A$650 million.[7][8] In September 2015, AGL Energy sold its 50% stake in the wind farm to H. R. L. Morrison & Co for $532m.[9]

AGL Energy will operate and maintain the wind farm in place of Morrison & Co and Malakoff. It also reserves the rights to all renewable energy certificates and electricity production until 2038.[10]

Operations

The wind farm registered its first grid output in September 2012 and reached full output in March 2013. 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" Macarthur's code is MACARTH1, so that is used.

Macarthur Wind Farm Generation (MWh)

Year	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2012	130,077	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	26*	16,862*	36,463*	76,726*
2013	1,081,695	64,870*	71,095*	89,292*	65,862	94,835	69,212	110,056	161,313	116,783	123,371	59,772	55,234
2014	921,516	88,586	64,894	57,826	67,697	56,297	91,760	128,794	59,464	84,296	84,224	68,951	68,727
2015	999,626	97,213	61,516	74,953	57,059	122,926	74,144	116,023	94,537	69,370	84,615	67,932	79,338
2016	1,020,744	73,619	52,313	53,025	69,527	134,943	92,693	135,718	102,208	69,759	91,122	78,019	67,798
2017	888,669	58,217	62,226	70,416	36,579	58,751	42,026	126,122	103,920	135,307	74,841	56,721	63,543
2018	1,069,469	62,680	73,665	88,828	57,723	105,689	86,562	161,645	132,595	91,421	81,484	65,725	61,452
2019	977,014	49,132	70,374	67,309	70,299	96,318	91,265	106,790	114,631	82,854	72,786	78,356	76,900
2020	779,604	73,238	14,531	79,991	70,096	95,739	66,404	60,178	78,541	25,518	80,581	66,617	68,170
2021		69,269	44,864	39,846	56,501	38,375	71,864	119,446	98,291	88,988

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

Performance

Macarthur has consistently been one of the worst performing wind farms since its construction in 2012.[11] It was intended to have a capacity factor around 34%[12] and generate 1240 GWh of energy per annum.[12]

However, the most the farm has generated was 1081 GWh in 2013, and has consistently averaged around 994 GWh, which corresponds to a capacity factor of 27%.

See also

• List of wind farms in Victoria
• Wind power in Australia

References

External links

• Macarthur Wind Farm - AGL website
• "AEMO Participant Registration List". Retrieved 28 February 2018.

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