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WSP to support 2 GW Aussie project

By: Tom Russell 19/03/2020 WSP

General Windfarms

WSP in Australia has been tasked with supporting the design of the Star of the South project’s onshore transmission network and grid connection. The grid connection will facilitate the transmission of electricity from the Australian offshore wind farm to the onshore gird.

WSP will be supporting the power system studies, system integration and Front End Engineering Design of the onshore transmission assets for the project. The services will be led by WSP's Victorian Power Team, supported by local partners Cable Systems Engineering and Stockton Drilling Services.

Site investigations are currently underway at the Star of the South, which will be Australia’s first proposed offshore wind project, located off the south coast of Gippsland near Port Albert. Investigations include a bathymetric and geophysical site survey to inform the project’s feasibility.

Survey activities will comprise geophysical data acquisition using a side scan sonar, single and multi-beam echo-sounders, sub bottom profiler, magnetometer / gradiometer (to identify magnetic objects) and underwater video. This equipment will either be towed from the stern of the MV Silver Star or in the case of the echo-sounders be mounted on the vessel.

Star of the South is being developed by Australian headquartered Offshore Energy and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. It is located 10-25 km off the south coast of Gippsland, Victoris and could consist of up to 250 turbines with an overall capacity exceeding 2 GW.

The developers claim that the array has the potential to generate up to 20 per cent of Victoria’s electricity needs and would feed power into the national grid via an underground cable to the Latrobe Valley. If the project is found to be feasible, and subject to government approval, construction could commence in 2022, with power generation in 2024. It represents a potential AU$8bn (€5bn) investment.

Approval for an exploration licence was granted in March 2019. The latest surveys are part of investigations which will likely take place over several years and inform the project’s feasibility and early planning phases.

For more information on offshore wind farm developments worldwide, click here. Alternatively you can view projects worldwide on 4C Offshore's interactive map.

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