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The Australian government has identified the Bass Strait off Gippsland as Australia’s first priority area to be assessed for suitability for offshore wind developments.
Gippslanders are being asked to have their say on a proposed 2000 megawatt offshore wind farm at a community forum run by Star of the South to be held locally next month.
Offshore wind turbines off Copenhagen, Denmark. DRAFT scopes of the Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Effects Statement for Australia’s first offshore wind project, Star of the South, off Port Albert, are available for public review and comment until midnight on July 27. Star of the South chief development officer Erin Coldham said the project was using leading technology to collect important data on migrating bird flight paths to inform the project’s environmental assessments and design. Specialist equipment with a state-of-the-art high-resolution camera is capturing data ...
Michelle Slater Star of the South has reached an “important milestone” by revealing its overland transmission route to plug in a two gigawatt offshore wind farm from Bass Strait into the Latrobe Valley. Star of the South chief development officer Erin Coldham said they had spent the past 12 months looking at three potential routes before settling on the most technically feasible option. The proposed route would come to shore at Reeves Beach and travel underground through Darriman, Giffard West and Hiamdale, and connect to either Hazelwood or Loy Yang. Ms Coldham said this route would now ...
Experts predict that the cost of wind energy will shatter expectations in the coming decades and become a more affordable source of power in a shorter