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Acciona Completes Australian Wind Project

October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

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Sarriguren, Spain [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Spanish wind development company Acciona has completed the commissioning of its biggest windpark in Australia.

The project: "represents a highly important milestone for Acciona, the region of Waubra and the renewables sector in Australia."

-- Brett Thomas, Acciona's director for the Asia-Pacific area

Located in the state of Victoria, the Waubra wind farm has a capacity of 192 MW and represents an investment of A$450 million (€270 million). The project consists of 128 Acciona Windpower AW-1500 wind turbines of 1.5 MW each.

Brett Thomas, Acciona’s director for the Asia-Pacific area, has declared that the start-up of the project: "represents a highly important milestone for Acciona, the region of Waubra and the renewables sector in Australia."

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October 20, 2009

its a very important start project for Wind Power Generation in Australia which is suppoussed to be potentially bigger than all of the country electricity consumption many times,specially in its South Coast
Congratulations Acciona ! ahead of the game!

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