{"id":7306,"date":"2024-02-27T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T05:01:20","slug":"february-2024-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/february-2024-update\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2024 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Storm Update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The severe storm on 13 February\u00a0impacted many people and towns across Gippsland. Our thoughts are with all the individuals, families and businesses\u00a0affected.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Widespread damage left many homes uninhabitable with trees and powerlines torn down, roads blocked and\u00a0buildings and infrastructure damaged. The loss of electricity and communications for many days made the situation even more challenging. Wherever you are located, we hope you and your family are safe. The\u00a0community\u2019s determination is strong as\u00a0residents and volunteers rally\u00a0together to work on the enormous clean-up and recovery job. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of the storm, our meteorological mast in Delburn recorded a maximum wind speed of 154 km\/h. Wind speeds in Mirboo North would have been much higher given the amount of serious damage in\u00a0the town at\u00a0the epicentre of the storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have been asked how the Delburn Wind Farm would survive in such severe\u00a0wind conditions. The\u00a0towers and turbines are designed to withstand extreme weather events, including cyclones and\u00a0severe storms with windspeeds similar to those that\u00a0went through our\u00a0region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction Update<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continue\u00a0planning and detailed discussions on the major procurement and construction contracts.\u00a0Construction of the Delburn Wind Farm is now planned to commence in the third quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The head\u00a0contractor and\u00a0major subcontractors have not been appointed\u00a0yet but as soon as this occurs, we will inform the community and the hundreds of people who haveregistered with us for employment and supply work on the wind farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in employment or supplying goods and services to the Delburn Wind Farm, it is not too late to submit an expression of interest. All you need to do is visit our website at\u00a0delburnwindfarm.au\/employment\/<\/a>\u00a0and submit your contact details, CV, business capability statement or supplier details. You will then be added to our database and contacted once the\u00a0head\u00a0contractor is appointed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terminal Station Panel Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning Panels Victoria have scheduled a Panel Hearing on 14 March, 2024 to hear submission on our application to amend the Delburn Wind Farm Terminal Station Planning Permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The amendment application requests minor amendments to the wording of some conditions to improve language and interpretation certainty, including the bushfire conditions. Information on the Panel Hearing can be found at the\u00a0\u00a0Department of Transport and Planning<\/a>\u00a0website.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you to those members of the community who have taken the time to participate in this process.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will inform the community of the outcome, once a decision has been made by the Minister for Planning following the Panel\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Storm Update The severe storm on 13 February\u00a0impacted many people and towns across Gippsland. Our thoughts are with all the individuals, families and businesses\u00a0affected.\u00a0 Widespread damage left many homes uninhabitable with trees and powerlines torn down, roads blocked and\u00a0buildings and infrastructure damaged. The loss of electricity and communications for many days made the situation even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delburnwindfarm.au\/prod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}