Goldwind Australia’s Central Highlands wind farm ready to start powering up

A new transmission line and substation are ready to start transmitting power as a Central Highlands wind farm moves closer to completion.

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A NEW wind farm in Tasmania’s Central Highlands is ready to add power to the state’s grid now its transmission line and substation are complete.

Goldwind Australia managing director John Titchen said the substation’s completion was a major project milestone.

“Goldwind is pleased to be partnering with TasNetworks to achieve successful energisation of the substation for the Cattle Hill Wind Farm project,” Mr Titchen said.

TasNetworks CEO Lance Balcombe said 130m of new transmission line had been built to connect the project to the existing transmission network.

Another 3km of existing transmission lines have been reconfigured to accommodate the future power output from the project.

Six Goldwind turbines are up and commissioning will take place soon. There are about 150 staff on site and construction of the wind farm is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Once operational, Cattle Hill Wind Farm will produce enough clean energy to power approximately 63,500 Tasmanian homes.