Wonthaggi Wind Farm

Wonthaggi wind farm is a wind power station at Wonthaggi in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It has 6 wind turbines, with a total generating capacity of 12 MW of electricity.

Technical Details

Each of the turbines is a German made Senvion MM82 turbines, with a rotor diameter of 82m, and each nacelle sitting on an Australian made 69m tall tower. The farm is operated by eDL Energy Australia, and became operational in December 2005.

Blade Snapping Incident

In March 2012 one of the rotor blades snapped, Senvion, the manufacturers of the turbine, replaced the blades. The fault was due to a manufacturing defect.