A 372-tonne section of a Dundonell windfarm turbine will pass through Melbourne from tonight until Sunday.
The $560m windfarm near Mortlake in western Victoria, will eventually consist of 80 turbines generating 336 megaWatts, roughly one tenth of the output of Loy Yang’s brown coal powerstation in Victoria’s east.
The convoy, which in a similar operation in January involved as many as five Lampson heavy haulage Mack trucks crawling at just 20km/h pulling a 56-wheel flatbed, along with 10 or more VicRoads, police and support crew vehicles, is to travel across four days to minimise disruptions.
VicRoads says “crews will help get the Superload safely around corners by temporarily removing signage and lights, ensuring steel supports are placed over existing drainage and then putting everything back in place”.
“Drivers travelling at the same time as the Superload need to plan ahead, find an alternative route or allow more time”, the road authority says because, “the Superload will be difficult to pass and delays are likely”.
The Superload will be 82 metres long and the windfarm itself is expected to be operational by late 2020.
In early January a 305-tonne transformer for the same windfarm, west of Lismore, which saw a massive operation undertaken to transport it across western Victoria and was one of the heaviest Superloads hauled in Victoria in recent years.
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