Golden Plains Wind Farm East (GPWFEST3)

Wind · Golden Plains WF1 Pty Ltd as trustee for the Golden Plains WF1 Unit Trust · Wind Turbine - Onshore

Dispatch stats Financials
Commissioning AEMO: In Commissioning VIC1 Wind - Wind NEM data · 24 hours
248 MW
Registered nameplate capacity
24 hours revenue
$31.2k
Capacity factor
7.0%
Revenue / MWh
$75.40
Est. SRMC
$0.50/MWh

Energy flow

Dispatch target (cleared) vs availability — 5‑minute intervals. VIC1 regional price (RRP) on right axis.

Key information
Capacity
248 MW

AEMO status In Commissioning
Project status Commissioning (AI)

Golden Plains Wind Farm East project updates: construction commenced in 2023 and includes turbine installation & commissioning (goldenplainswindfarm.com.au, accessed 2024).

Region VIC1
Coordinates —

MLF 0.9815
DUID GPWFEST3
Owner Golden Plains WF1 Pty Ltd as trustee for the Golden Plains WF1 Unit Trust
Commissioned Dec 2025
Expected closure 2055
Closure date —
Technology Wind Turbine - Onshore
Fuel Wind - Wind
Turbine OEM Vestas
Turbine model V162-6.2 MW
Equipment confidence high
Stats window
25 Sep 2026 00:00 → 25 Sep 2026 23:59 AEST

Dispatch & revenue

25 Sep 2026 00:00 → 25 Sep 2026 23:59 AEST

Energy revenue (× MLF)
$31.2k
FCAS revenue (× MLF)
$0
FCAS volume
— MWh
Dispatched
413.7 MWh
Available
333.9 MWh
Curtailed
— MWh
Curtailment
0.0%
of available
MLF used
0.9815
end of period

Revenue (× MLF)

Estimated $ per interval — energy (RRP) and FCAS (regional FCAS prices), both × MLF.

Methodology & assumptions

  • Dispatch & availability — AEMO Next Day Dispatch UNIT_SOLUTION (5‑minute intervals). Intervention intervals excluded.
  • Regional price — dispatch_price RRP matched by settlement time and NEM region (from generator registry).
  • Energy revenue (× MLF) — cleared MW × (5/60 h) × RRP × MLF.
  • FCAS revenue & volume — cleared FCAS MW from DISPATCHLOAD (raise/lower 6s, 60s, 5min, reg) × (5/60 h) × regional FCAS price × MLF. Volume is total FCAS enablement MWh across services.
  • State of charge — INITIAL_ENERGY_STORAGE (MWh at interval start) from UNIT_SOLUTION, published for bidirectional/storage units. Next-day data — the SOC line lags real time by up to a day.
  • Curtailment — estimated economic curtailment when availability exceeds dispatch target: max(0, availability − cleared) × (5/60) MWh.
  • Not settlement — estimates only. AEMO settlement applies DLF, rebids, constraints, and other factors not modelled here.
MLF history (AEMO daily)
Effective fromMLF
2024-08-06 0.9808
2025-07-01 0.9834
2026-07-01 0.9815

Financial overview

2026 real AUD. Monetary values are CPI-adjusted to 2026 real Australian dollars. Greenfield capex uses AEMO benchmarks when plant-specific cost is unknown.
Type
Wind (onshore)
Capacity
248 MW
Revenue (× MLF) (stats)
See dispatch stats link above
Est. SRMC
$0.50/MWh
Capex total (greenfield)
$3,275.11M

Shown in table
$3,275.11M (2026 real AUD)

Reported / source value
$3,000.00M (2023 nominal)
Adjusted to 2026 real AUD using Australian CPI (All Groups).

How this was derived
Official project website states the development cost for the project is $3 billion plus; used here as project-specific reported capex for Stage 1.

Reference
About Golden Plains Wind Farm (high confidence)
Source recorded 08 Jun 2026
Capex refurbishment
—
Capex / MW derived
$13,206,085

Shown in table
$13.21M (2026 real AUD)

Reported / source value
$12.10M (2023 nominal)
Adjusted to 2026 real AUD using Australian CPI (All Groups).

How this was derived
Stage 1 capacity is 756 MW; dividing the reported $3 billion floor by 756 MW yields the implied per-MW figure.

Reference
Golden Plains Wind Farm East - Project Updates (high confidence)
Source recorded 08 Jun 2026
Fixed OPEX (annual)
$7.69M

Shown in table
$7.69M (2026 real AUD)

Reported / source value
$7.36M (2024 nominal)
Table total may differ if recalculated from $/MW × registered capacity after CPI adjustment.

How this was derived
Annual fixed O&M scaled to the generator's registered capacity of 248 MW per the user-provided site data.

Reference
2024 Energy Technology Cost and Technical Parameter Review (high confidence)
Source recorded 08 Jun 2026
Fixed OPEX / MW-yr
$30,995

Shown in table
$31.0k (2026 real AUD)

Reported / source value
$29.4k (2024 nominal)
Adjusted to 2026 real AUD using Australian CPI (All Groups).

How this was derived
AEMO/Aurecon benchmark fixed O&M for onshore wind used as fallback.

Reference
2024 Energy Technology Cost and Technical Parameter Review (high confidence)
Source recorded 08 Jun 2026
Variable OPEX / MWh default
$0.50

Shown in table
$0.50 (2026 real AUD)

How this was derived
The benchmark report does not provide a separate variable O&M value for wind; it is effectively embedded in fixed O&M for the wind case presented.

Reference
2024 Energy Technology Cost and Technical Parameter Review (high confidence)
Source recorded 08 Jun 2026
Fuel cost / GJ
—
Heat rate GJ/MWh
—

Confidence: high · Status: ai estimated · Capex basis: reported · AI checked 08 Jun 2026

Notes
Project-specific capex was reported by the project website as a '$3 billion plus' development cost for the Golden Plains Wind Farm, with Stage 1 (Golden Plains Wind Farm East, 756 MW) commencing construction in January 2023. Because the source is stated as 'plus', the capex_total_aud is set to the conservative floor of $3.0 billion and capex_per_mw_aud is calculated on the 756 MW Stage 1 capacity, not the full 1,330 MW precinct. Fixed O&M uses AEMO/Aurecon 2024 onshore wind benchmark of $29,383/MW-year; variable O&M is included in the fixed component per the benchmark source.

Sources