Cullerin Range Wind Farm
Overview
In January 2008, Origin acquired the development rights from Epuron to build the 30 MW Cullerin Range Wind Farm, 12 km east of the NSW township of Gunning.The new Cullerin Range Wind Farm will play an important role towards increasing the supply of renewable electricity generation in NSW and help lower the state's greenhouse gas emissions.
This web page will be updated periodically as the construction phase commences.
The Wind Farm
The Cullerin Wind Farm project has an extremely good wind resource and is one of the most competitive projects of its kind in Australia
with a capacity factor of 44 percent and close proximity to electricity transmission infrastructure.
Cullerin is approximately 700 metres above sea level and will consist of 15 2MW REpower turbines on prefabricated tubular steel towers standing 80 metres high, which will be manufactured in Australia.
Preliminary construction works commenced end of January 2008 and the commissioned wind farm is scheduled to be in full operation by early 2009.
The transmission connection will go into the Goulburn/Yass 132Kv line owned by Country Energy. When fully operational, Cullerin Range will save about 100,000 tonnes of carbon annually or provide enough renewable electricity to power almost 15,000 typical homes in NSW. more...
Project Approval
The Cullerin Range Wind Farm received approval from the NSW Department of Planning on 21 February 2007.
For more information, please contact:
Yvette Reade
Manager, Public Relations
1800 677 315
GPO Box 1199
Adelaide SA 5001