Starfish Hill Wind Farm is a 33 MW wind power plant in South Australia, Australia. It is operated by RATCH-Australia. Based on reported annual generation of 98 GWh, it can supply roughly 28k homes. It ranks #299 of 536 Australia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2003, it is around 23 years old — relatively modern. 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id AUS0000052.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000906155); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 33 MW, Starfish Hill Wind Farm is below the median wind plant in Australia (66 MW). Technically it is described as Onshore. Wind turbines convert moving air into electricity; output is variable and site-dependent, and modern turbines deliver some of the lowest-cost new generation on many grids.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by RATCH-Australia.
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 35.6°S — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with marine corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #46 largest wind power plant of 65 in Australia by capacity.
Australia has 65 wind power plants in this dataset, together about 5,786 MW of capacity.
Coordinates -35.5703, 138.1575 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Starfish Hill Wind Farm is a 33 MW source-record wind power plant in South Australia, Australia, commissioned in 2003.
Starfish Hill Wind Farm generates about 98 GWh of electricity per year.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 27,857 homes.
Starfish Hill Wind Farm is operated by RATCH-Australia.
