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Leonards Hill

Wind power plant in Victoria, Australia. Approximate location -37.4271, 144.1222.

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Leonards Hill is a 4 MW wind power plant in Victoria, Australia. It is operated by Hepburn Community Wind Park Co-operative Ltd. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 3,488 homes (estimated). It ranks #420 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).

4MW installed capacity
3,488homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000341.

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 Hepburn Community Wind Park Co-operative Ltd.

Local climate & thermal context

This wind plant converts the kinetic energy of wind into electricity through turbine rotors. It sits in a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 37.4°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

11.8°Cannual mean temp
2,261heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
519 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 17 °CJF: 18 °CFM: 16 °CMA: 13 °CAM: 10 °CMJ: 7 °CJJ: 6 °CJA: 7 °CAS: 9 °CSO: 11 °CON: 13 °CND: 15 °CD18 °C

Heating degree-days here run 8% 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: 47/100 — this site sits in the mid 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 #61 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 -37.4271, 144.1222 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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