Kiata Wind Farm

Kiata Wind Farm is a small wind farm located along the Western Highway south east of Nhill. The wind farm is owned by Windlab, the John Laing Group and some local shareholders. The turbines were built by Keppel Prince and assembled at the site by Windlab. It was "officially opened" by Lily D'Ambrosio on Australia Day 2018. According to Kiata Wind Farm director Rob Fisher, the Kiata turbines "are the biggest turbines operating in Australia to date." The ABC reported that some of the local landholders would become part owners "via a community investment model."

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 to obtain generation values for each month. The URL must be formatted as: "http://nemlog.com.au/show/unit/YYYYMMDD/YYYYMMDD/?k1=GENCODE" Kiata's code is KIATAWF1, so that is used.

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.