WINDFARM TOURIST DRIVE OverviewMillicent Visitor Information Centre W I N D F A R M Why wind energy? Capacity: • 27.5MW (Lake Bonney) • 46 MW (Canunda) Owners: • Lake Bonney 1, 2, 3 – (100%) While in Millicent take time out to enjoy, experience • Canunda – Engine (72%) and Mitsu & Co Ltd (28%) Windfarm • Wind energy is a free alternative to fossil fuels Turbines: Vesta V661 Mountat Lake BonneyGambier 1: Road TO U R I S T D R I V E ‘clean & green’, the best of whatproviding the region insulation has from to fueloffer. price shocks. • Blade LengthMillicent 32 metres SA 5280 • Tower height 60 metres to hub Travel down Lossie Road, through the lush farmlands, • Start-upCorrespondence: wind speed 14km/h (4m/s) • Maximum powerPO Boxwind speed27 90 km/h (25 m/s) and turn left at Canunda •Frontage Wind energy Road. is not water intensive and Tourist Drive Vestas V90 atMillicent Lake Bonney SA 52802 & 3: does not pose a risk to the environment • Blade Length 45 metres Experience the peace and beauty of the natural Ph: (08) 8733 0904 clean & green with potential hazardous spills and pollution. • Tower height 67 metres to hub environment, the bird life and native animals in their • Start-upFax wind (08) speed 8733 14 km/h 3205 (m/s) In contrast to fossil fuel generators wind [email protected]• Maximum power wind speed 90 km/h ov.au (25m/s) habitats, take in the Canundafarms National are compatible Park, with Lakeother land users, Vesta V23 at Canunda: • Bladewww.wattlerange.sa.gov.au Length 40 metres Bonney ’s largest freshlike farming. water lake and • Tower height 67 metres to hub the agricultural pursuits that are undertaken on the • Start-up wind speed 14km/h (4 m/s) • Maximum power wind speed 90km/h (25m/s) undulating pastures. • More than 200,000 wind Material: • Tower – Steel Look up to the higher groundturbines of thehave beenWoakwine commissioned Range • Blade – fiberglass reinforced fibre epoxy / carbon fibres around the world providing ample Rotor diameter & rotation: and gaze in awe at the mighty wind turbines that • V66 is 66 metres. One rotation every 3 seconds evidence that the wind turbines are a • V90 is 90 metres. One rotation every 4 seconds stretch as far as the eye canclean see and embracing safe generation of technology. • V23 is 23 metres.Opening (Rotation Hours: TBC with ENGIE.) the “Clean and Green” experience. Motor on into Employment – Lake Bonney: •Monday Jobs during – Friday construction: 9.00 400am – 5.00 pm Tantanoola the home of the famous Tantanoola Tiger Weekends• Jobs and during Public operation: Holidays 20 at 10.00site and am25 locals – 4.00 pm displayed in the Tantanoola Hotel, and then take time contracted/part-timeClosed Christmas jobs 20 Day out to step down into one ofHow South do Australia’swind turbines most work?

ADELAIDE beautiful caves, the Tantanoola• Turbines Caves. have internalMake controls your that monitor the wind Murray Bridge way back to Millicent along directionthe Princes and speed, Highway with electricity and production beginning Keith at winds above 14km/h. discover more about what Millicent -the heart of the Bordertown Kingston Naracoorte Horsham Robe - has to offer. Coonawarra Penola • The amount of electricity produced continues to increase MILLICENT Ballarat Hamilton MELBOURNE until the turbines reach maximum capacity. This varies by Port MacDonnell Nelson turbine type and size but is typically 36-54km/h. Portland Warrnambool

• Stronger winds do not turn the blades faster. The blades Millicent Visitor Information Centre rotate at a regular 15-18 revolution per minute and 1 Mount Gambier Road (PO Box 27), Millicent SA 5280 operate at capacity until the wind speed reaches 90kmlh. Phone: (08) 8733 0904 • Fax: (08) 8733 3205 [email protected] • www.wattlerange.sa.gov.au The turbines automatically shut down and turn out of the Open: Monday – Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm wind when the wind speed goes beyond 90km/h. Weekends and Public Holidays, 10.00am – 4.00pm @MillicentSouthAustralia Closed Christmas Day www.wattlerange.sa.gov.au

Wattle Range C O U N C I L Across Wattle Range, the Beachport Visitor Information Centre and the Penola Coonawarra Visitor Information Centre are also able to assist you with brochures and further information on Millicent. E X P E R I E N C E . E N J OY. DISCLAIMER -The information in the publication was current at the time of printing June 2006. The publisher takes no responsibility for the accuracy of this information and suggests that you check all details when making an inquiry Acknowlegments: clean & green Photography: , Paul Cavanagh Design: Bianca Gillin 0439 810 801 www.wattlerange.sa.gov.au To Kingston To Penola

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Agricultural Bureau Dr Millicent Visitor Information Centre Millicent The is located on the Limestone Coast, one of Australia’s most prominent wind farming regions. The coastal area benefits from consistently strong winds coming off the Lossie Rd PRINCES HWY Southern Ocean – ideal conditions for wind energy generation.

The wind farms on the Woakwine Range make up 18% of Work on the commenced in 1989, Wind Farm the Development Approval was granted in June 1999 by the state’s wind capacity. The 135 spectacular wind turbines Canunda TOURIST DRIVE CausewayRd in Canunda (23) and Lake Bonney 1, 2 & 3 (112) are located Wattle Range Council. The Canunda and Lake Bonney wind about 2km from the eastern shore of Lake Bonney SE, near farms were opened 31 March 2005. The wind turbines are To Tantanoola Canunda Mount Gambier connected by an underground 33 kilovolt (KV) electricity cable Millicent and Tantanoola. The windfarms have a combined Tantanoola Rd installed capacity of 325 MW and generate just over 850 with the electric substation, where the voltage is steeped up to 132KV volts to be submitted into the Mayurra substation gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity, which is equivalent to Canunda Frontage Rd supplying power to 120,000 homes per year. and then onto the grid.

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The towers of the Lake Bonney wind turbines were It takes a wind turbine three to six months to produce manufactured by Keppel Prince at Portland, the wind farm the amount of energy that goes into its manufacture, Lake Bonney transformers from Wilson Transformers and cabling from installation, operation maintenance and decommissioning Nexans Olex in Australia. after its 25-year lifetime. Poonada Rd

“The wind farms on the Woakwine Range make up 18% of the state’s wind capacity.”