The Boco Rock wind farm, which will comprise 122 turbines with a maximum capacity of 270MW, is the first New South Wales wind farm development project for Wind Prospect and the second largest in the state of NSW.
Construction will begin at Boco Rock in mid-2011, with a target completion date in 2013. The wind farm has the potential to produce over 840,000 megawatt hours of electricity per annum, enough energy to supply over 120,000 average Australian homes.
In developing Boco Rock, Wind Prospect will utilize the wind industry’s market leading remote sensing measurement technology developed by the US based Second Wind.
Wind Prospect deployed three Triton Sonic Wind Profilers at various locations around the Boco Rock site to measure hub height wind speeds and to validate the shear profile above the height of the site’s meteorological towers. The meteorological towers were instrumented with Second Wind’s Nomad 2 data loggers.
Triton is an advanced remote sensing system that uses sodar (sound detection and ranging) technology to measure wind at higher heights than the previous tower-based standard.
By measuring wind speeds at the turbine rotor’s hub height and beyond (up to 200 meters), Triton reduces uncertainty in annual energy production (AEP) forecasts. Triton’s ease of deployment also streamlines the wind farm development process.
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