Sapphire Wind Farm


Sapphire Wind Farm is a wind farm in the Australian state of New South Wales. When it was built in 2018, it was the largest wind farm in New South Wales. It is in the New England region of northern New South Wales, east of Inverell and west of Glen Innes. It is north of the Gwydir Highway. The White Rock and Glen Innes Wind Farms are south of the highway closer to Glen Innes. It is intended to be colocated with a 200MW solar farm. The wind farm contains 75 Vestas V126 turbines, each of which can generate 3.6W of electricity. They have a 137 metre hub height and 126 metre rotor diameter. The project is approved to build up to 109 wind turbines.