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North Brown Hill Wind Farm

Wind power plant in South Australia, Australia. Approximate location -33.3093, 138.7296.

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North Brown Hill Wind Farm is a 132 MW wind power station in South Australia, Australia. It is operated by AGL Energy Pty Ltd. Based on reported annual generation of 474 GWh, it can supply roughly 135,571 homes. It ranks #119 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).

132MW installed capacity
474GWh reported / yr
135,571homes powered

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000024.

Reported generation trend

2013: 426 GWh20132014: 484 GWh20142015: 429 GWh20152016: 457 GWh20162017: 396 GWh20172018: 474 GWh2018484 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by AGL 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 cold semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen BSk) — Southern Hemisphere, latitude 33.3°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

14.7°Cannual mean temp
1,537heating degree-days (base 18°C)
310cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
523 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: 22 °CJF: 22 °CFM: 19 °CMA: 15 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 9 °CJJ: 8 °CJA: 9 °CAS: 11 °CSO: 14 °CON: 17 °CND: 20 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 37% 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: 35/100 — 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 #13 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 -33.3093, 138.7296 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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