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by Candlelight Vol. 19 No. 22
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Story, page 5 NATURE’S PALETTE: Priscilla George, 18, of Beulah works on a bouquet at awardwinning Horsham business Pick a Posie. Priscilla, fresh from completing year 12 at Warracknabeal Secondary College, has started work as an apprentice florist at the Urquhart Street business, impressing with work stemming from work experience in June last year. Joint business owner Donna Johns said Priscilla won the position after displaying natural talent, initiative and creativity. The appointment also reflects the success and growth of Pick a Posie, which won a best retail category at this year’s Wimmera Business Awards. Priscilla, who joins the staff of Mrs Johns, Tricia Bryan and Rachel Heard, will attend Marjorie Milner College of Floristry in Surrey Hills, Melbourne as part of her training. Picture: KELLY LAIRD
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BY DEAN LAWSON
enewable-energy production continues to gain momentum as a major industry in the Wimmera, Grampians and Western District with another company confirming plans for a wind farm in the region. Independently owned NewEn Australia, a subsidiary of Germany’s Dirsch and Schroder Group and windfarm co-developer, is drawing up details for a nine-turbine Rifle Butts Wind Farm at Wonwondah, south of Horsham.
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Plans are for the 27-megawatt farm, with potential to provide enough electricity to power 14,000 houses, to be part of NewEn Australia’s stable of western Victorian wind-farm projects. The firm already has projects underway at Penshurst, Woorndoo, Mortlake and Inverleigh districts. The Rifle Butts project site is about four kilometres west of Wonwondah North and its progress is mainly dependent on findings from several months of wind research. NewEn Australia director Ernst Weyhausen said a public meeting on the project at Wonwondah Hall earlier
this month had attracted a positive response. “Our policy is to make people in the area aware of the project. Of the 20 people there, all were interested to find out what’s going on and asked a lot of questions,” he said. RES Australia is constructing Ararat Wind Farm, which is already generating power, and planning a similar large-scale operation at Murra Warra between Horsham and Warracknabeal. Another international company Enerfin has the go-ahead for a Bulgana Wind Farm near Great Western and Australian-owned Windlab is building
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NewEn’s business model is to sell its projects during or towards the end of the development stage. Mr Weyhausen said wind conditions, power-line connectivity and general accessibility made Wonwondah an ideal site. He said the concept involved connecting the farm to a 66-kilovolt dis-
tribution line at the corner of Wonwondah-Toolondo and Motts roads. “The next step is to measure the wind. We suspect it is good enough but we need to measure it and that includes gathering many months of data,” he said. NewEn will analyse wind via a LIDAR unit and if initial results are successful, erect a 120-metre mast net to gather more comprehensive data. Mr Weyhausen said the expected time frame for a conclusion of the various studies needed, apart from wind assessment, and a submission of a planning application was early 2018.
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a farm at Kiata in the west Wimmera. Horsham Rural City Council has also confirmed an inquiry about suitability of the area from another international developer specialising in solar as well as wind-power generation.
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