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Ararat Wind Farm is a wind farm in western Victoria, Australia. It is located approximately 180km northwest of Melbourne. It was officially opened on 27 June 2017 and was the third-largest wind farm in Australia at that time, with capacity to generate 240MW from 75 turbines. The farm has General Electric turbines that have a rated capacity of 3.2 MW, a hub height of 85 metres, 103 metre rotor diameter, and a tip height of 135 metres. Of the 75 turbines, 70 are in the Rural City of Ararat and five are in the Shire of Northern Grampians.