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Australia’s biggest wind farm at Coopers Gap to undergo major repairs – RenewEconomy
GE will replace one wind turbine and 50 “generators” at a further 50 turbines after faults discovered during inspection of the country’s biggest wind farm.
The 458MW Coopers Gap wind farm in south west Queensland, the newest and biggest wind project built to date in Australia – is to undergo major repairs after faults were found in its commissioning process.
AGL, which operates the $850 million project and is a joint owner through the Powering Australia Renewables Fund, said in a statement that the blades of one of the 123 turbines will have to be replaced entirely, while GE Catcon is also going to replace “generators” – referring to the equipment…
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