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AGL opens SA wind farm

POWER Retailer AGL Energy has officially opened its $236 million Hallet wind farm, 220km north of...

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The Hallet stage one wind farm is the first of four planned for the area and has 45 wind turbines generating about 95MW per year.

According to the Australian, the second stage is under construction, while the remaining stages are in development.

If all of the stages proceed, AGL could be operating more than 232 wind turbines and generating a combined capacity more than 460MW by 2011, the newspaper quoted.

"Wind energy is the fastest growing global renewable energy source and AGL believes wind will be the most significant renewable technology able to provide the scale required to satisfy our country's renewable energy requirements for the next decade," AGL managing director Michael Fraser was quoted saying in the Australian.

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