White Rock Wind Farm is a wind farm in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is in the New England region of northern New South Wales, 40 kilometres (25mi) east of Inverell and 20 kilometres (12mi) west of Glen Innes. It is south of the Gwydir Highway. The Sapphire Wind Farm is north of the highway and Glen Innes Wind Farm is south of the highway closer to Glen Innes.[1] It is approved for up to 119 wind turbines, and stage 1 has been completed with 70 turbines.[2] In 2011 it had an estimated construction cost of A$450m.[3]
Operations
The wind farm began increasing output grid power in July 2017, was fully commissioned in February 2018 and has operated since then. The generation table uses eljmkt nemlog to obtain generation values for each month.
White Rock Wind Farm Generation (MWh)
Year
Total
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2017
80,622
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1,563*
15,204*
10,029*
17,452*
18,473*
17,901*
2018
520,686
30,826*
47,075*
51,720
47,184
39,874
46,462
43,343
49,259
40,780
40,160
39,692*
44,311
2019
525,373
30,786
56,922
44,355
50,959
43,413
44,342
49,503
37,389
45,090
34,497
42,634
45,483
2020
501,095
33,449
43,159
54,146
29,951
44,302
36,758
45,327
51,724
48,544
32,179
32,371
49,185
2021
492,988
43,138
45,912
47,525
38,168
30,667
41,479
49,611
36,052
30,623
43,138
48,021
38,654
Note: Asterisk indicates power output was limited during the month.
