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2007/08/06 Under construction |
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This turbine was built several months before the other 44 of the Brown Hill Range Wind Farm. It was the first utility scale wind turbine to be built in Mid-North SA, which became, a few years later, the biggest centre of wind power in the country. This view is from the Bundaleer forest. 2007/03/25 (Brown Hill Range Wind Farm has been called Hallett Wind Farm.) Contact, email daveclarkecb@yahoo.com |
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Old and new wind power machines
The pre-existing high capacity power line is one of the reasons Hallett Wind Farm is located where it is. Turbine #1 on the right, the two lower sections of the tower of another turbine is near the centre of the photo. |
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The first-quarter moon, anemometer tower, and lower section of a turbine
tower.
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Hallett power station is a gas-fired peaking station located on the
intersection of the Moomba-Adelaide gas pipeline and a high capacity
power line from Port Augusta power station.
This view is from Brown Hill ridge on which the Hallett #1 wind turbines were being built. |
| Lifting the first of four sections of one of the 45 towers to be built. The red crane has a capacity of 300 tonnes, and the white, 100t. |
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Lifting gear
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Cranes
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Cranes
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Aligning boltsOnce on the four guide bolts the tower base will align with all the many other bolts (well over a hundred of them). |
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Weather-beatenLooking west toward Bundaleer |
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Waiting for the lift
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| The 300 tonne crane lifting the second section. |
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Going up |
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Coming over
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First sunlight on a summer morningTwelve turbines were completed at this time. This image is a combination of three photos using HDR processing. |
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The sun gets a little higher
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| The Brownhill Range, on which are the turbines, overlooks the Booborowie Plain. |
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The construction road leading toward some of the completed turbines
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Remnant treesThere are few trees on Brown Hill Range; I've tried to use these to make the picture more interesting.
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'Sand dunes'Looking over some turbine blades stored in a yard on the plain toward some of the completed turbines on the rangeThis is one of my favourite photos |
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One of the big cranes used for lifting the upper half of the towers and
turbines
I was told the really big crane was off on another job!
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StumpsStumps of turbines to be completed march off into the distance. The very weathered old log in the foreground and the trees in the near gully and the distance show how sparce the remnant native vegetation is near Brown Hill Range. |
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Tower lift
The lower two sections of the towers were lifted by smaller cranes.
The biggest cranes in Australia were needed to lift the upper sections
into place.
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Rotor lift
The last of the big lifts for this turbine, the rotor is raised into place.
This step, in particular, requires relatively calm weather.
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From a distanceBrown Hill turbines from 50km south (my place, Elysium, near Armagh in the Clare Valley). 2008/02/04 The image on the left is a detail from the one above. |
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Air navigation lights |
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Sunrise |
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Sun on clouds |
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Catching the sunlight |
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Looking north
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Looking north |
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The land to the east |
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The land to the east
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| Hallett Hill Wind Farm |
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It was a fairly calm day; the turbines were hardly moving. |
AcknowledgementI must thank Peter Reed and Brendan Ryan of Suzlon Energy for their help in getting these photos and for providing information on the Brown Hill Range Wind Farm and Brendan also for his photos. |
Index2007/08/06 Under construction2007/12/12 Dawn, construction 2008/08/25 Operational Acknowledgement Bottom Brendan Ryan, construction Drone photo From 50km away Top |