GE, AGL to develop Australian wind farm in Coopers Gap, Queensland

GE announced an agreement with the Powering Australian Renewables Fund to supply and install 123 wind turbines for the Coopers Gap wind farm project at Cooranga North, 250 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.

PARF is a partnership between AGL Energy Limited and Queensland Investment Corporation. Upon completion in 2019, the 453 MW wind farm will produce approximately 1,510,000 MWh of renewable energy annually – enough to power the equivalent of more than 260,000 average Australian homes and reduce CO2 emissions by 1,180,000 tonnes each year. Coopers Gap Wind Farm is a landmark project for GE.

It will be the largest wind farm in the country on completion, and GE’s first wind project in Queensland. It is the second major renewables project that GE and AGL have announced this year, following the Silverton Wind Farm in western New South Wales.

GE will deliver 91 of its 3.6 MW turbines with 137m rotors, and 32 of its 3.8 MW turbines with 130m rotors.

GE will also undertake a 25-year full service agreement to maintain the windfarm over its lifetime.

The project is expected to create up to 200 jobs during the peak of construction, and an additional 20 ongoing operational jobs. The construction firm CATCON will be responsible for the wind farm’s construction.

The Coopers Gap development is GE’s fifth wind farm project to begin construction in Australia in 2017. On completion in 2019, GE will be responsible for a fleet of wind turbines with a capacity of almost 1.4 GW.

Watch shares of TPI Composite (TPIC) as it is a provider of wind blades to GE.

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