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Wind to fuel Sydney's desal plant

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Sydney's desalination plant will be powered by a south-west New South Wales wind farm under what Premier Morris Iemma has called Australia's biggest green energy industry contract. The 63-turbine Capital Wind Farm, run by Babcock and Brown, is under construction in Bungendore and will be operating before the plant is due to come on line in 2010. It is estimated it will cost at least $9 million a year to power the desalination plant. In announcing the deal today, Mr Iemma ... Read »
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