Squadron Energy has marked another milestone for its 414 megawatt Uungula wind farm, with all 69 of the project’s turbine cages now built – and nearly all planted – and the final massive steel cages now being delivered to site in the New South Wales Central West region.
Squadron says all 69 of the wind turbine anchor cages have been manufactured locally, including by Smithfield-based Precision Oxycut, which makes the steel plates for the cages that form the base of each turbine.
Another manufacturer in nearby Regent’s Park, Allthread Industries, makes the bolts of the cages, and then the parts are assembled back at Precision Oxycut’s warehouse in Newcastle before they’re delivered to the Uungula site, around 14 km east of Wellington.
Each anchor cage is made from 100 per cent Australian steel supplied by Australian steel manufacturing giant BlueScope, with the steel produced at the company’s Port Kembla Steelworks.
“It’s a great story when we can talk about three Australian companies combining to make sure these turbines are built on strong foundations,” Squadron Energy regional economic development manager Bart Sykes told 7 News late last week.
