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Lake Bonney Stage 3 Wind Farm

Wind power plant in South Australia, Australia. Approximate location -37.7505, 140.393.

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Lake Bonney Stage 3 Wind Farm is a 39 MW wind power plant in South Australia, Australia. It is operated by Infigen Energy Pty Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 33,187 homes (estimated). It ranks #259 of 512 Australia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, wind supplies about 13.7% of Australia's electricity; the national grid averages 525 gCO₂/kWh (38.6% low-carbon) (2025).

39MW installed capacity
33,187homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000484.

Capacity vs largest wind plants in Australia

Murra Warra Wind Farm: 429 MW429Murra Warr…Macarthur Wind Farm: 420 MW420Macarthur …Sapphire Wind Farm: 270 MW270Sapphire W…Ararat Wind Farm: 240 MW240Ararat Win…Collgar Wind Farm: 206 MW206Collgar Wi…Waubra Wind Farm: 192 MW192Waubra Win…Mt Gellibrand Wind Farm: 189 MW189Mt Gellibr…Musselroe: 168 MW168Musselroe

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by Infigen Energy Pty Ltd. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.8°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.0°Cannual mean temp
1,465heating degree-days (base 18°C)
11cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
19 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 18 °CJF: 18 °CFM: 17 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 13 °CMJ: 11 °CJJ: 10 °CJA: 11 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 13 °CON: 15 °CND: 16 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 40% below the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 33/100 — this site sits in the bottom third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #45 largest wind power plant of 65 in Australia by capacity.

Australia has 65 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 5,739 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates -37.7505, 140.393 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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