Kiata Wind Farm is a small wind farm located along the Western Highway south east of Nhill.[1] The wind farm is owned by Windlab, the John Laing Group and some local shareholders.[3] The turbines were built by Keppel Prince and assembled at the site by Windlab.[3] It was "officially opened" by Lily D'Ambrosio on Australia Day 2018.[2] According to Kiata Wind Farm director Rob Fisher, the Kiata turbines "are the biggest turbines operating in Australia to date."[2] The ABC reported that some of the local landholders would become part owners "via a community investment model."[4]
Operations
The wind farm began grid commissioning in November 2017 and was fully commissioned in December 2017 and has operated continuously since then. The generation table uses eljmkt nemlog to obtain generation values for each month. The URL must be formatted as: "http://nemlog.com.au/show/unit/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDD/?k1=GENCODE[permanent dead link]" Kiata's code is KIATAWF1, so that is used.
Kiata Wind Farm Generation (MWh)
Year
Total
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2017
11,105
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
2,560*
8,545*
2018
130,943
9,169
9,788
11,831
7,925
11,121
8,869
13,740
15,109
11,351
12,239
10,216
9,585
2019
126,101
9,249
9,262
9,485
9,134
11,148
10,047
12,132
11,385
9,938
10,526
12,754
11,041
2020
122,993
10,105
9,409
12,254
9,982
9,880
9,197
8,977
11,520
11,958
10,426
9,806*
9,479*
2021
9,758*
8,093*
7,499*
5,460*
11,110*
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
