Mitsui Begins Site Preparation and Civil Works at Bald Hills Windfarm in Australia

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources Australia (Perth, Australia)--The kick-off ceremony for the largest phase of the Bald Hills windfarm, located in Walkerville, Victoria, was held in October 2013. Mitsui & Company (Australia) Limited (Victoria, Australia) selected REpower Australia Pty Limited (Victoria) as the principal contractor for the project.

The Bald Hills Windfarm is under development by Mitsui, in association with selected contractors and suppliers. The power plant has a total planned capacity of 106.5 megawatts (MW) and will involve a combination of 52 Repower MM82 and MM92 turbines rated at 2.05 MW each.

The project owner, Mitsui, selected REpower Australia Pty Limited as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor (EPC) and turbine supplier. Later, REpower and Mitsui awarded Consolidated Power Projects Pty Limited (Adelaide, Australia) and Hazell Brothers (Tasmania, Australia) contracts to perform electrical and civil construction services, respectively. Mitsui says that the construction process will create huge economic benefits for the locals, and it expects to employ up to 150 workers for onsite construction from December until July 2014.

Early site preparations and road works began in September 2013. They will be followed by onsite construction and civil works. Turbines will be supplied to the site by June 2014, at which time Mitsui, with selected contractors, plans to finish this most intensive phase of construction. The site works include electrical fit-outs. Final windfarm commissioning is planned for early 2015.

The Bald Hills windfarm will be connected to the national electricity grid at Leongatha South by construction of 27-kilometre (km) power line on concrete poles, rated at 66 kilovolts (kV). For almost half the route, the power line will overbuild the existing 22-kV power line.

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