Victoria’s Offshore Wind Zone Slashed to One-Fifth of Original Size

Published on March 6, 2024

A planned offshore wind zone off Victoria’s coast is been approved at only a fraction of the size originally planned after community groups and environmental lobbyists voiced their concerns about the impact on marine life. The 1,030 square kilometres (397 square miles) wind zone, an area where offshore wind farm infrastructure, a driver of clean renewable energy can be built, will be located 20 kilometres off the Western Victoria coast at Warrnambool and Port Fairy. It will be the third officially declared off-shore zone in Australia, with the first being an area of the Bass Strait off Gippsland announced in December 2022. Offshore wind farms work by utilising undersea cables to harness and transport energy generated by sea-based wind turbines to a grid....

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