Project Overview
Collgar Wind Farm is a $600 million project consisting of up to 127 wind turbines located approximately 25km south east of Merredin in Western Australia. Development Approval was granted by Merridin Shire Council on 23 Spetember 2008.
Collgar Wind Farm - Site Location Plan
The aim of this project is to develop an environmentally and economically sound wind farm that will provide renewable energy to be used locally and exported to the national grid.
This project will generate approximately 900,000 MWh of clean, renewable electricity into the national power grid each year, thereby making a major contribution to Western Australia's greenhouse gas reductions. These reductions will be equivalent to taking 200,000 cars off the road, planting 1,300,000 trees and producing enough electricity to power approximately 160,000 homes with renewable energy.
The electricity generated from each turbine will be transmitted via underground or above ground cabling to a central cable marshalling point at the onsite substation, which will be located next to the 220kv power line that runs through the site area. The substation will then connect directly into the grid network on site.
Detailed site investigations have been undertaken over the last few months including ecological, heritage, visual and social, which formed the basis of the planning application for the project. Development approval was granted by Merridin Shire COuncil on 23 September 2008.