Australia will soon be building a giant 1000 Megawatt wind farm in the New South Wales province that will be capable of powering 400,000 homes. This comes as part of its plan to hit the target of “generating 15 per cent of its energy needs from “low polluting” sources by 2020″, according to The Register. They are putting 500 turbines on the landscape best known for being the backdrop of Mad Max 2!

“The construction will cost a whopping $1.8bn, according to reports, (that’s AU$2bn) with the contract going to German firm Conergy’s Epuron unit. Work on the farm is scheduled to begin in 2009, and is expected to take three to four years to complete.

Epuron already has contracts to build three other wind farms across the continent, capable of generating more modest amounts of electricity. A fourth proposal is going through planning approval, said Andrew Durran, executive director of the firm’s Australian business.”

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