Plans have been submitted by Origin Energy for a new wind farm, to be called Stockyard Hill Wind Farm, to the west of Ballarat. The wind farm proposal is for a 242-turbine wind farm to be constructed on land encompassing the area about 5km south of Beaufort, south to 4km north of Skipton, centred around [...]
The largest commercial wind farm in the southern hemisphere is in the final stages of commercial assessment in Victoria, Australia. Named the Macarthur Wind Farm, it is a joint venture partnership between AGL and Meridian Energy, which is New Zealand’s largest generator of electricity using only renewable resources.
The Macathur Wind Farm has a proposed maximum [...]
A joint venture is being undertaken between Investec Bank (Australia) and Windlab Systems Pty Ltd to develop the Collgar Wind Farm in Western Australia. The wind project will be situated approximately 25km south east of the town of Merredin and will consist of up to 127 wind turbines with an expected maximum capacity of 267MW [...]
A wave power station has been proposed off the coast of Western Australia by a joint partnership agreement announced between Ocean Power Technologies and Griffin Wave Power Ltd. The proposed wave power station will have an initial capacity of 10MW with the potention to expand to 100MW.
The technology used to create the Western Australia Wave [...]
Australian company BioPower Systems Pty Ltd has secured funding for a new ocean power system they have called bioWAVE. The system is a unique method of harnessing the power of the ocean. The bioWAVE device mimics the way marine plants respond to the movement of the currents and tides of the ocean.
The funding has amounted [...]
The proposed Yaloak Wind Farm has been in the planning and information gathering stage since 2005. Pacific Hydro has selected the site on private farming land near Ballan in western Victoria about an hour’s drive from Melbourne.
The first proposal has already been rejected by Victorian Planning Minister Rob Hulls in 2005 and so Pacific Hydro [...]
