Final concrete pour complete at state’s first new wind farm in several years

Western Australian energy generator and retailer Synergy announced on Monday that it had completed the final concrete pour on its 105-megawatt (MW) King Rocks wind farm 350 kilometres east of Perth.

Set to consist of 17 wind turbines with a total nameplate capacity of 105 MW, the King Rocks wind farm is located in Western Australia’s Eastern Wheatbelt region in the Shire of Kondinin.

The wind farm’s location, 35 kilometres north-east of Hyden and its world-famous Wave Rock, was chosen for its strong overnight winds and its proximity to Western Power’s existing transmission lines.

Synergy made the announcement on its LinkedIn account on Monday, revealing that the final concrete pour on the seventeenth wind turbine foundation had been completed the previous Friday, March 13.

Construction work is also continuing at the wind farm’s substation site, with the construction of the foundation and earthing in progress. A communications tower at the substation is also under construction and expected to be completed this month, as is the ongoing construction of the wind farm’s internal road network, with over 10 kilometres already complete.

The King Rocks wind farm is expected to be operational sometime next year and is one of a range of new renewable energy projects Synergy is developing in the South-West Interconnected System (SWIS) to expand the region’s renewable generation capacity.

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