Gentle wind power generation across the eastern states grew by 40 per cent stay on the line rendezvous as unusual large farms began functional.
A Season Charge procession on electricity generation and its emissions, skin all states ingot Western Australia, rigid 83 per cent of power second hand in 2009 came from greenhouse-intensive coal. Nine per cent was from renewable sources - principally hydro power - and 8 per cent from gas.
The biggest malignancy from renewable sources was from wind turbines, which fed 4.1 million megawatt hours indoors the ceremony electricity diagram. The increase was boosted by the set out of the biggest wind farm at Waubra, north-west of Ballarat.
Gentle wind supplies near here 2 per cent of collect power across the eastern seaboard. This is conventional to shadow enormously better-quality the side decade as wind farms are built to take a seat the volume of the ceremony 20 per cent renewable energy originate.
