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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 171 asked in the Legislative Council on 28 March 2018 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 40 Session: 1


ALBANY WAVE ENERGY PROJECT — WESTERN POWER CONSULTATION
      171. Hon PETER COLLIER to the Minister for Regional Development:
I refer to the Albany wave farm.
      (1) Did the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development consult with Western Power on network capacity at the nearest substation; and, if not, why not?
(2) If yes to (1), what was the advice in relation to network capacity?
Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:
I thank the member for the question.
      (1) As part of the initial project planning phase, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development consulted with Western Power about the project and no technical issues were foreseen.
      (2) Western Power's advice to DPIRD was that a connection in the general Sand Patch beach area is possible and that although there is no guarantee that the asset that Western Power maintains closest to the wind farm has the capacity to accept additional generation, there are other feeders that would be able to allow connection that are further away. We understand that Western Power is now processing Carnegie Clean Energy's standard-form connection application.