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[[Image:We're Fans.jpg|thumb|250px|Overview of the wind farm]]
[[Image:Wind turbine - toora.jpg|thumb|Turbine overlooking the Promontory]]
 
'''Toora Wind Farm''' is a [[wind power]] station at [[Toora, Victoria|Toora]] in [[Gippsland|South Gippsland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. It is located is north of [[Wilsons Promontory]] and 150km SE of Melbourne. The wind farm is on a ridge overlooking the small town of Toora.
 
Toora has 12 [[wind turbines]], each of 1.75 MW rated capacity, with a total [[Electricity generation|generating]] capacity of 21 [[Megawatt|MW]] of [[electricity]]. The power station was completed in 2002.


[[Image:We're Fans.jpg|thumb|250px|Overview of the wind farm]]
As of May 2008, it is owned by Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund. Vestas Wind Systems - a Danish company, and one of the world's largest turbine manufacturers - constructed the wind farm.
[[Image:Wind turbine - toora.jpg|thumb|250px|Turbine overlooking the Promontory]]
'''Toora Wind Farm''' is a [[wind power]] station at [[Toora, Victoria|Toora]] in [[Gippsland|South Gippsland]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]. Toora has 12 [[wind turbines]], with a total [[Electricity generation|generating]] capacity of 21 [[Megawatt|MW]] of [[electricity]].


The power station was completed in 2002.
Good viewing and photography points are available on a road that passes right by the wind farm.  From some of these views of the coastal plain, the [[Strzelecki Ranges]], and Wilsons Promontory can be combined with views of the turbines.  Accommodation is available in a caravan park at Toora.


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Wind power]]
*[[List of wind farms in Victoria| Wind power in Victoria]]
*[[List of wind farms in Victoria | Wind power in Victoria]]
*[[Wind power in Australia]]
*[[Renewable energy]]
*[[Renewable energy commercialisation in Australia]]
*[[Renewable energy commercialisation in Australia]]
*[[Toora, Victoria]]
 
==References==
<references/>
* [http://www.geocities.com/daveclarkecb/Australia/WindVic.html Wind Farms in Victoria]


== External links ==
== External links ==
*[http://weathermaker.org/climate-change-actions/community-actions/toora-windfarm-victoria-australia Photos of the wind turbines at Toora]
*[http://weathermaker.org/climate-change-actions/community-actions/toora-windfarm-victoria-australia Photos of the wind turbines at Toora]
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Latest revision as of 06:37, 29 April 2009

File:We're Fans.jpg
Overview of the wind farm
File:Wind turbine - toora.jpg
Turbine overlooking the Promontory

Toora Wind Farm is a wind power station at Toora in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is located is north of Wilsons Promontory and 150km SE of Melbourne. The wind farm is on a ridge overlooking the small town of Toora.

Toora has 12 wind turbines, each of 1.75 MW rated capacity, with a total generating capacity of 21 MW of electricity. The power station was completed in 2002.

As of May 2008, it is owned by Transfield Services Infrastructure Fund. Vestas Wind Systems - a Danish company, and one of the world's largest turbine manufacturers - constructed the wind farm.

Good viewing and photography points are available on a road that passes right by the wind farm. From some of these views of the coastal plain, the Strzelecki Ranges, and Wilsons Promontory can be combined with views of the turbines. Accommodation is available in a caravan park at Toora.

See also

References