SWF #1 All Lined Up - From Old to New Traditional Cache
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SWF #1 All Lined Up - From Old to New
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SWF: No1 All Lined Up - From Old to New
This cache is part of the Snowtown Wind Farm series – designed to give you a little more understanding on different aspects of this project.
You can read the information or not, regardless the caches should be simple to find if you just want to drive around for a couple of hours, enjoy the different panoramas and claim the smileys! Each cache has a number – record this to decode the location of the final cache - SWF #10 All Blown Out.
Hope that you enjoy the series…
Consideration of wind farm opportunities along the Hummocks and Barunga Ranges started in the mid 1990s. The Adelaide Company “Wind Prospects” undertook a number of wind surveys and liaised with landowners in peak sites along the ranges. In later years, a number of other companies recognized the wind farm potential and this recognition, combined with increasing government support for green energy, considerable investigation followed. A minimum of 5 energy developers negotiated with individual landowners in the an attempt to secure access rights to prime spots which could be clustered together into viable projects. Key players who went public included – Pacific Hydro (south - west of Crystal Brook), Stanwell (east of Mundoora), Wind Prospects (peak scattered sites along the ranges), Trust Power (mostly centered west of Snowtown) and Wind Farm Developments (clusters along the ranges). Negotiations between landowners and developers were mostly undertaken under “a cone of silence” with contracted landowners bound by confidentiality agreements.
Public consultation and council planning submissions were completed late 2003, with Wind Prospects representing both Wind Prospects and Trustpower development projects. Although Council approval was given, “the ducks didn’t line up” and neither company proceeded at this time. The potential of the site was rarely doubted, but viability fluctuated in response to government energy policy.
A couple of years later, the energy climate changed – and the project was again looking positive. At this time, Wind Prospects were heavily committed to the Hallett Wind Farm development - the Hallett / Mount Bryan project being enhanced by co-location to an alternate (non-green) energy source.
Late in 2006, New Zealand based company Trustpower effectively bought out Wind Prospect contracts, renegotiated and re-jigged the two projects. Plans from both Wind Prospects and Trustpower were reconfigured and the Snowtown Wind Farm was born. The original project was for 42 turbines running from Hope Gap Road in the north the Barunga Gap in the south, (although by 2008 it had been expanded to 47 turbines and stage 2 is under advanced planning)
Actual construction of the 88MW capacity wind farm, enough to power 60,000 average-sized houses, commenced in January 2007 – much to the relief of all involved. Initial work involved multitudes of trucks, utes and workers building access roads, power connections and sub-station infrastructure. The traffic and dust was such that the developers bituminized the dirt roads fronting some homes. The first tower was erected in December 2007, with the blades turning just before Christmas.
If you line up the cache with the old and the new, you will be able to identify the very first wind tower erected in the Snowtown Wind Farm
TAKE CARE when parking and leaving your vehicle - remember that Highway 1 is very busy, and frequented by road trains and other heavy vehicles
Additional Hints
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