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Wikipedia / Musselroe Wind Farm

Musselroe Wind Farm is a wind farm at Cape Portland, Tasmania, Australia. It was the third wind farm built in the state, following the Bluff Point and Studland Bay Wind Farms (making up the larger Woolnorth Wind Farm).

While it is operated by Hydro Tasmania, which has a 25% stake in the farm, China-based Shenhua Clean Energy (SCE) owns a 75% stake in the farm. Guohua Energy Investment owns a 75% share in SCE, while its sister company, Shenhua Hong Kong, owning the remaining 25% share in SCE.

The farm consists of 56 Vestas V90-3MW wind turbines, with a generating capacity of 168 MW. The energy output from the Musselroe Wind Farm will be sufficient to supply electricity to around 50,000 households and abate 450,000 tonnes of emissions annually.

The first 37 turbines were connected to the grid in 2013, and the full farm was completed in January 2014.

Operations

The generation table uses eljmkt nemlog to obtain generation values for each month. Grid connection started in March 2013, and was fully commissioned during September 2013.

Year

Total

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

2013

295,995

N/A

N/A

32*

241*

945*

7,468*

30,983*

48,784*

51,220*

68,997

35,500

51,825

2014

484,474

34,713

27,852

31,917

34,204

44,233

39,258

40,538

34,299

46,341

53,862

47,685

49,572

2015

510,368

45,190

29,885

53,417

24,113

48,269

45,136

52,411

43,939

25,602

36,782

56,514

49,110

2016

612,762

42,717

35,000

32,513

38,435

54,397

66,585

74,100

52,272

40,050

65,207

61,271

50,215

2017

552,314

58,317

45,091

35,292

23,034

37,767

42,745

47,559

47,323

69,999

51,901

32,724

60,562

2018

581,505

41,025

36,252

43,946

52,602

60,142

41,883

67,299

61,374

59,152

32,440

40,365

45,025

2019

654,555

50,717

53,246

41,241

49,790

55,566

40,342

74,391

59,072

55,465

50,408

70,404

53,913

2020

555,972

52,825

58,586

30,647

56,364

47,486

37,668

36,360

46,909

50,266

45,181

39,047

54,633

2021

567,380

49,594

34,507

50,766

57,488

47,518

30,729

50,829

62,706

59,434

52,991

31,725

39,093

Musselroe Wind Farm Generation (MWh)

Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.

Note: From 2018, the wind farm participated in the FCAS market; this generally reduces the amount of power provided to the grid in order to allow a ramp up when required. The wind farm now has an apparent limit of ≈153 MW, rarely returning to its previous maximum output of around ≈166 MW when the grid demands it.

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