A renewable energy scheme hatched by a couple of farmers almost a decade ago is finally coming to fruition.
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The Granville Harbour Wind Farm was connected to the Tasmanian energy grid on Thursday with nine of the 31 turbines installed.
The $280 million project is also meeting expectations it can generate up to 360 gigawatts hours a year once finished in around six months, according to project director Lyndon Frearson.
"We went from first energisation (of a turbine) to full output within two days," he said.
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"That's a pretty strong statement about the quality of the work that's been completed by the team on site to be able to get that output and we've been consistently getting the full output of the plant since we've been operating."
The Granville Harbour and Cattle Hill wind farms are expected to boost Tasmania's renewable energy production from 95.6 per cent to 100 per cent by 2022.
Minister for Energy Guy Barnett said that would make Tasmania "one of the few jurisdictions in the world" to be completely self-sufficient on renewable energy.
"We will be easily way ahead of the rest of every other state and territory in Australia," he said.
The Granville Harbour turbines are almost 200 metres tall, have blades with a rotation the size of two soccer pitches and sit on foundations each made of around 100 trucks of concrete.
The energy will be sold to Hydro Tasmania and transported via an 11 kilometre transmission line to Reece Power Station.
The overwhelming majority of the 200 jobs created by the project will only last until construction is completed.
However, Mr Barnett was confident new jobs would be created by other renewable energy plants and supporting infrastructure, such as the second Bass Strait interconnector.
"We expect those developments to continue for decades ahead," he said.
Granville Harbour Wind Farm was built by several Tasmanian companies but required specialist contractors from interstate to support the local workforce.
Mr Frearson believed Tasmanians would benefit from being involved in the project and the interstate expertise.
"Every one of those Tasmanians who's been here working has drawn so much expertise from what's going on and being able to learn more about how these projects come together," he said.
"And that will all be available for Tasmania in the future."
And Mr Frearson was personally glad to be involved.
"I've worked on a lot of construction projects around Australia and Africa and around the Asia Pacific ... If I never build anything else, this is the one that I want to say, 'I was part of it," he said.