GE (www.ge.com) has announced an agreement with the Powering Australian Renewables Fund (PARF) to supply and install 123 wind turbines for the Coopers Gap wind farm project at Cooranga North, 250km north-west of Brisbane.

PARF is a partnership between AGL Energy Ltd (AGL) (20%) and Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) (80%).

When completed in 2019, the 453MW wind farm will produce about 1,510,000MWh of renewable energy annually — enough to power more than 260,000 average Australian homes and reduce CO₂ emissions by 1,180,000 tonnes each year.

GE will deliver 91 of its 3.6MW turbines with 137m rotors, and 32 of its 3.8MW turbines with 130m rotors.

The project is expected to create up to 200 jobs during peak construction, plus 20 on-going operational jobs.

Coopers Gap wind farm will be the largest in the country on completion — and GE’s first wind project in Queensland.

It is the second major renewables project that GE and AGL have announced this year, following the Silverton wind farm in western New South Wales.