CRANES IN ACTION Wind farm
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MT GELLIBRAND WIND FARM UP AND RUNNING BOOM Logistics (Boom) completed work on installing 44 turbines at owner/developer Acciona’s 132MW capacity Mt Gellibrand wind farm (25 kilometres east of Colac, VIC) in June this year, with commissioning ongoing in July and ramping up to full capacity in August.
THE 3MW NORDEX AW3000 wind turbines have a rotor diameter of 125 metres, and are installed on an 87.5 metres (hub height) 4-section steel tower. Boom undertook the full installation scope including: component offloads; component installation, and; electrical and mechanical fitment. In doing this, it
providing client Acciona Energy with a turbine ready for commissioning. Across the wind farm, Acciona established a total of 30 kilometres of internal roads to link the turbine sites, with this completed in October 2017. Footings for the turbines (over 15,000 square metres of concrete) were completed in the
Erecting the 500-tonne Liebherr with fly jib – progression of erected towers awaiting blades in the background showing the benefits of separating the work of the Demag crawler and 500-tonne Liebherr 56 / CAL September 2018
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