Adelaide Advertiser
Saturday 3/4/2010 Page: 21
SOUTH Australia will have up to 1000 MWs of windpower being generated across the state by July. A study also has indicated that Eyre Peninsula has the potential to provide up to a further 2000MW of power, which is more than enough to meet Adelaide's daily average power consumption of just over 1500MW. Premier Mike Rann said yesterday the installed capacity on Eyre Peninsula potentially could be much higher using new, high-yield turbines.
A consortium headed by the Macquarie Bank is examining the potential for renewable energy projects in SA, especially Eyre Peninsula, in an attempt to capture an estimated $6 billion in green-energy funds. During his visit to California late last year, Mr Rann met green-energy groups interested in investing in SA projects involving wind, solar, wave and geothermal power Mr Rann said yesterday the combined investment by private energy companies in wind farms across the state since 2002 was now nearly $2 billion. "There are currently two more wind projects under construction with a combined capacity of 150 MWs," Mr Rann said.
The latest projects are Infigen Energy's 39MW project at Lake Bonney and the Roaring 40s 111MW stage-one project at Waterloo. "These wind farms will add to the 868MW veneration already installed - which means that total wind generation will pass the 1000MW mark in July," Mr Rann said. Mr Rann said the Macquarie Green Grid study indicated Eyre Peninsula had the sites and wind resources to add a further 2000MW of wind generation turbines operating above 35% capacity - the threshold needed to operate economically. "However, we must first have the ability to link these extra farms to the national electricity grid," he said.
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