Doug Landfear is the company's project director, and he says the farm has a potential capacity to generate up to 700MW of power and will suck up an estimated investment of over $1billion.

"We are working through several important development activities including landowner agreements, environmental assessment, grid connection and community engagement," Mr Landfear said.

"We anticipate that development will be completed by mid-2022. From there, construction would likely commence in early 2023, with the project to be commissioned in early 2025."

The company predicts about 300 direct construction and service jobs will be created during the approximately two year construction period.

"This will create significant economic benefit for local hotels, shops and restaurants," Mr Landfear said.

"In addition, we think that around 16 permanent, long-term operations and maintenance jobs will be created that will bring new skills and opportunities to the Walcha community."

The entire wind farm will cover around 29,000 hectares, but actual infrastructure (turbines, roads, powerlines) should only be about 1,000 hectares according to Mr Landfear.

"So although the turbines will be spread over a reasonable size area the actual footprint is pretty small," he said.

More than 30 landowners will host one or more wind turbines while other landowners will host the transmission line needed to connect the project to the existing electrical grid. The farm is expected to consist of 125 wind turbines in total.

"We are giving the local community part of the ownership of the project so that the project benefits are shared more broadly," Mr Landfear said.

"As part of an innovative community ownership and revenue sharing arrangement, turbine hosts, easement owners and project neighbours will be invited to become involved in a 5 per cent project stake held by WalchaWind Pty Ltd at no cost to them.

"In turn, WalchaWind has committed to sharing the benefits it receives 50/50 with the broader Walcha community."

An environmental impact assessment is currently being prepared to support a development application.

Vestas, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, has been building wind turbines since 1979 and has supplied over 108 GW of wind turbines in over 80 countries around the world.

"In Australia, Vestas employs approximately 450 people," Mr Landfear said.

"Vestas has constructed around 3,000 MW of wind projects in Australia, and is currently delivering a further nine wind farms with a capacity of over 1,400 MW."

Mr Landfear said the company is currently working with a number of host landowners.

"It is important to identify the very best potential locations for wind turbines, usually on elevated ridges with high wind speeds and predictable winds," he said.

"Also, we try to locate wind turbines away from homes to reduce visual impact and away from sensitive vegetation to reduce flora/fauna impact.

"As part of the environmental assessment process we will assess the visual impact of the wind turbines at residences and at view points around the wind farm.

"While some visual impact is unavoidable, we will do our best to design the project to minimize the impact to visual amenity, and we will incorporate landholder and community feedback into the design.

"Community engagement is critical to the success of the project and we want the community to be supportive and enthusiastic about the project and the project benefits."

The company has just launched its project website to provide a place where the community can learn more about the project and provide direct feedback to the project team.

"As part of the environmental assessment process, we will be seeking community feedback via surveys and community meetings, and we will also be directly consulting with host landowners and neighbours," Mr Landfear said.

"And of course we will have a booth at the upcoming Walcha Show and hope that community members will stop by for a chat."

Winterbourne Wind is currently installing three wind monitoring towers to monitor wind speed and direction at different heights above ground to help them model the wind regime in the project area.

"This will help us identify the optimal locations for turbines," Mr Landfear said.

"The amount of energy that a turbine is able to produce is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, so very small increases in average wind speed can mean very large increases in energy generated."

The energy generated by the wind farm will be delivered into the grid via a new transmission line that will connect the project to the existing TransGrid network near Uralla.