icubed consulting supported both Downer and Zenviron respectively in the 61-turbine Stage 1 Senvion Wind Farm and the 38-turbine Stage 2 General Electric Wind Farm. Situated in the flat Wimmera fields, the 220m blade tipped turbines can be seen rising above the morning fog. The flat, silty nature of the local environment posed an engineering […]
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Waipipi Windfarm, commissioned in 2021, is situated in South Taranaki on the Western Coast of the New Zealand North Island and was icubed’s first renewables wind project in New Zealand. The wind farm sits on iron sand dunes and extends to within a few hundred metres of the coastline. The major civil challenge for the
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icubed consulting undertook the role of Civil and Structural Designer for the Balance of Plant Works at Dundonnell Wind Farm, delivered by our long-term partner Zenviron. The project, developed by Tilt Renewables, consists of 80 Vestas Wind Turbine Generators, with an individual capacity of 4.2MW. Combined, the project has a total potential power output of
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The Goldfields Agnew Mine is the site of one of the first, and most successful, renewable micro-grids developed to power metallurgical processing and mining infrastructure. The micro grid consists of a combination of fossil fuels, 16MW gas and 3MW diesel generation, supplemented with 4MW solar generation, 18MW Wind Generation from 5 Gold Wind Australia towers
The Yarranlea Solar Farm was conceived by one of icubed consulting’s founders, Nick Canto, in 2016. icubed consulting undertook all preliminary assessments, location selection, and PV solar sizing for the project, before establishing a landowner agreement for 250 hectares of land at Yarranlea, approximately 50 km west of Toowoomba in Queensland. All facets of the
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The Emerald Solar Park was the first large-scale solar project in Queensland to sign a corporate power purchase agreement. The 72MW project was constructed near the Central Queensland town of Emerald on agricultural land and became operational in February 2019. The project involved installation of approximately 250,000 solar photovoltaic panels on a single axis tracking system
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icubed consulting were engaged by Zenviron to complete the structural foundation design and associated civil works for the 66/33 kV electrical substation as part of the Lal Lal wind farm project. Key structural elements of a wind farm substation include a piled foundation solution to support an oversize switch room building and a concrete support
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Developed by CWP Renewables, the Sapphire Wind Farm (situated between Glen Innes and Inverell along the Gwydir Highway) was the second instalment in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands Renewables Hub. With a nameplate capacity of 270MW, Sapphire which was commissioned in 2018, was at the time, the biggest single stage wind farm development that
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icubed consulting provided the detailed civil and structural design for the Ararat Wind Farm, which comprises 75 Wind Turbine Generators with a combined power output of 240 MW. 34 of the 75 turbines are founded on a smaller concrete structure, that capitalises on the strength and high quality of the insitu rock. These smaller foundations
In the iconic mining town of Coober Pedy, EDL Developed an Off-Grid Wind-Solar-Battery Power Project. Icubed were incredibly fortunate to be involved in this innovative initiative. This ARENA (Australian Renewable Energy Agency) funded project involved a combination of 4MW of wind, 1MW of Solar and 1MW of Battery Storage. The Coober Pedy Renewable Hybrid Project
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icubed consulting, commissioned by Downer Utilities, undertook the role as the Civil and Structural Designer for the Balance of Plant Works at the Taralga Wind Farm. The Wind Farm, taken through its final stages of development by CWP Renewables, is located to the South-East of Taralga in the NSW Southern Tablelands. The Project consists of
The Boco Rock Wind Farm, built atop the ridgelines of the Monaro Highlands, adds an additional wind element to the already vast amount of renewable energy produced in the Snowy Mountains region. With a generation capacity of up to 113MW, Boco Rock will offset just below 300,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum while power ing
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