Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply, install and commission 32 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3.2MW and a rotor diameter of 113 meters, for the Hornsdale Stage 2 onshore wind farm in South Australia.
Stage 2 is an addition to the Hornsdale Stage 1 wind farm project, for which Siemens has signed a contract in August 2015. The customer for both wind power plants is Neoen Australia, a business of the French company Neoen. Installation of the wind turbines is scheduled to begin in December 2016, with the start of operations expected by June 2017. Siemens will then be responsible for service and maintenance of the wind turbines within the framework of a long-term service agreement. The wind power plant will be installed near the South Australian town of Jamestown, around 200 kilometers north of Adelaide and will achieve a record low price of 77 Australian Dollars per MWh – around 5.2 Euro Cents per kWh. The Hornsdale wind farm Stage 1 was signed at a fixed price of 6.1 Euro Cents per kWh in 2015.
