Among the pieces currently being moved from the Port of Adelaide to the Snowtown site are 90 3-megawatt direct-drive turbines with 270 rotor blades, 90 hubs, coolers, and transformers, as well as 210 tower sections and two main power transformers.
Because of the sheer size of the parts, they have to be moved one piece at a time, each with police escort. If you laid out the rotor blades alone end to end they would form a road train about 13 kilometers long.
The Snowtown II wind farm with its 90 gearless 3-megawatt turbines will be capable of producing 270 MW of energy which will power up to 180,000 South Australian homes.
It will help South Australia achieve the goal of 33 percent renewable energy by 2020, the company said.
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