Badgingarra Wind Farm, WA

Badgingarra is located 214 km north of Perth on the Brand Highway. It is 121 km north of Gingin and 74 km south of Eneabba.

Located 12 km south of Badgingarra at 1192 Bibby Road (which lies to the west of the Brand Highway and to the south of Badgingarra) is the $180 million Emu Downs Wind Farm with an excellent lookout and information boards. The project started in 2005 and was commissioned in 2006. It consists of 48 Vestas wind turbines (each 1.65 MW generating capacity), a substation, interconnection to the main 132 kV electricity grid, and administration and stores buildings. The wind farm provides electricity to run the Kwinana Desalination Plant, located 260 km to the south, which turns water from the Indian Ocean into nearly 152 million litres of drinking water per day.Read more