Goldwind has won a contract for the Kondinin hybrid renewables plant in the state of Western Australia.
According to the developer Lacour Energy, construction of the A$250m project is planned to start in late 2019, pending a final investment decision.
Goldwind will supply up to 46 turbines for the wind project, which will be around 120MW in size, and manage construction.
Lacour Energy managing director Mark Rayner said: “Now that the development approval milestone is complete, Lacour Energy is pleased to announce it has partnered with Goldwind to deliver the wind and solar project.
“We are aiming to complete the final investment decision for the project in 2019.”
The project would take around two years to build so would be online in late 2021 or early 2022, according to Rayner.
Rayner said Kondinin is set to be one of the lowest cost projects in Western Australia.
“There is a strong wind resource located on the Western Power network with plenty of ability to connect the project via an existing substation,” he said.
Kondinin, which is intended to include battery storage, has been developed as a hybrid project, so the grid connections costs can be shared between the wind and solar farm.
“Wind is likely to be 120MW, solar 50MW. All of the different components of the project are independent, however, and it may be that the wind farm proceeds alone without the solar or battery or vice versa depending on the outcome of the final feasibility work,” said Rayner.
Goldwind Australia managing director John Titchen said: “A number of new wind farms are expected to be built in Western Australia over coming years as a result of the progressive reforms of the Western Australian Government and the Western Power Interim Access solution currently being rolled out.”