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| New South Wales |
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New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia. It was founded in 1788 and originally comprised much of the...
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| Darrieus wind turbine |
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The Darrieus wind turbine is a type of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) used to generate electricity from the energy carried in the wind. The turbine consists of a number of aerofoils usually--but not always--vertically mounted on a rotating shaft...
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| Scroby Sands wind farm |
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The Scroby Sands wind farm is a wind farm located in the North Sea, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) off the coast of Great Yarmouth in eastern England, United Kingdom, and erected in 2003-4.
The farm was commissioned by Powergen Renewables Offshore, a...
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| British Wind Energy Association |
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) is the trade and professional body for the wind power and marine renewable energy industries in the United Kingdom, and the UK's leading renewable energy trade association.
Originally founded in 1978 to...
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| Ontario Power Generation |
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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is a public company wholly owned by the Government of Ontario. OPG is responsible for approximately 70% of the electricity generation in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Sources of electricity include nuclear,...
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| Enercon |
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Enercon GmbH, based in Aurich, Northern Germany, is the third-largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world and has been the market leader in Germany for several years.
One of Enercon's key innovations is the gearless (direct drive) wind turbine in...
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| Horns Reef |
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Horns Rev (also known as Horns Reef) is a shallow area in the eastern North Sea, about 15 km / 10 miles off the westernmost point of Denmark, Blåvands Huk.
At Horns Rev the Danish Energy company Elsam (now DONG Energy) built the first offshore wind...
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| Aralvaimozhi |
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Aralvaimozhi (or Aramboly) is a panchayat town in Kanniyakumari District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is a small village situated in southern India.
Aralvaimozhi is near the Muppandal wind farm. This farm is the largest in Asia and supplies...
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| Savonius wind turbine |
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Savonius wind turbines are a type of vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT), used for converting the power of the wind into torque on a rotating shaft. They were invented by the Finnish engineer Sigurd J. Savonius in 1922. Johann Ernst Elias Bessler ...
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| Te Apiti wind farm |
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Te Āpiti (sometimes spelled Te Apiti) is a wind farm owned and operated by Meridian Energy Limited. It is located on 11.5 km² of land north of the Manawatu Gorge in the North Island of New Zealand. At 90.75 MW, it was New Zealand's largest capacity...
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| Goonhilly Downs |
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Goonhilly Downs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest that forms a raised plateau in the central western area of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. Situated just south of Helston and the Naval Air Station at Culdrose, it is famous for its...
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| Vestas |
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Vestas Wind Systems |
Vestas Wind Systems is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines, currently the largest in the world with a 28% market share. The company operates manufacturing plants in Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Britain, Spain,...
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| Airborne wind turbine |
An airborne wind turbine is a design concept for a wind turbine that is supported in the air without a tower. Airborne wind turbines may operate in low or high altitudes; they are part of a wider class of airborne wind energy systems (AWE) addressed...
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| Turby wind turbine |
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The Turby is a brand of vertical-axis Darrieus wind turbine. The three vertical aerofoil blades have a helical twist of 60 degrees, similar to Gorlov's water turbines .
The turbine consists of three vertical symmetrical airfoil blades, each having a...
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| Windpark Holtriem |
Constructed in 1998, Windpark Holtriem is one of the largest European windfarms, comprising thirty-three Enercon E-66 wind turbines. Holtriem is a low lying area adjacent to the North Sea in East Frisia (Lower Saxony, Germany).
One wind turbine is...
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| Stateline Wind Project |
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The Stateline Wind Project (46°2′13.98″N 118°48′23.74″W / 46.0372167°N 118.8065944°W / 46.0372167; -118.8065944) is a wind farm located on Vansycle Ridge, which receives 16 to 18 mph (26 - 29 km/h) average wind speeds from the Columbia Gorge, on...
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| Portland Wind Project |
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The Portland Wind Project is one of Australia's largest wind farms. Located on the coast of south-western Victoria near the city of Portland, it consists of four separate sites. Completion of the entire 195 MW project is expected in 2009-2010, at a...
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| Codrington Wind Farm, Victoria |
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Codrington Wind Farm is a wind farm on the coast of south-western Victoria, Australia near Yambuk.
Completed in June 2001, the 18.2 MW installation of 14 wind turbines generates 51 GWh annually, for a capital cost of 30 million Australian dollars by...
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| Wattle Point Wind Farm |
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Wattle Point Wind Farm is a wind farm near Edithburgh on the coast of South Australia, which has been operating since April 2005. When it was officially opened in June of that year it was Australia's largest wind farm at 91 megawatts. The...
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| Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm |
The Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the first coastal wind farm in the United States and the first wind farm in New Jersey. It became operational in December 2005 and consists of five 1.5 MW turbines built by General...
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| Cefn Croes |
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Cefn Croes is wind farm in Ceredigion, Wales. It is located in the Cambrian Mountains, just south of the A44 road between Aberystwyth and Llangurig, in west Wales.
Building of the wind farm commenced February 2004, and was completed spring of 2005...
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| Royd Moor Wind Farm |
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The Royd Moor Wind Farm is located at Penistone, South Yorkshire, England, and consists of thirteen 500 kW turbines. The site is located approximately 6 km north west of Penistone, above the A628 trunk road between Sheffield and Manchester. The...
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| Gharo Wind Power Plant |
Gharo Wind Power Plant is planned to be built in the persistently wind-swept corridor of Gharo, Sindh, Pakistan. This will be one of the first wind power project in Pakistan.
The turbine manufacturer Fuhrländer of Germany and Access Energy Inc of...
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| Vansycle Wind Project |
The Vansycle Wind Project is a wind farm in Umatilla County, Oregon. It consists of 38 Vestas wind turbines along Vansycle Ridge with a collective generating capacity of 24.9 MW. The project was the first commercial wind energy project constructed...
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| Maple Ridge Wind Farm |
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Maple Ridge Wind Farm is the largest wind farm in the state of New York in the United States, with 195 Vestas model V82 1.65 MW wind turbines. Each turbine tower is 260 feet (79 m) tall. Each turbine has blades 130 feet (40 m) long, which added to...
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| Gray County Wind Farm |
Gray County Wind Farm near Montezuma, Kansas is the largest wind farm in Kansas and the largest in the United States not mandated by a state regulatory commission. The site consists of 170 Vestas V-47 wind turbines with a total nameplate capacity of...
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| Blue Canyon Wind Farm |
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Blue Canyon Wind Farm is the largest wind farm in Oklahoma, United States. The project, located in the Slick Hills north of Lawton, consists of two phases.
The first phase consists of 45 NEG Micon 1.65 MW wind turbines, with a collective nameplate...
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| Waymart Wind Farm |
Waymart Wind Farm is the largest wind farm in Pennsylvania, United States. It consists of 43 GE 1.5 MW wind turbines, with a total net capacity of 64.5 MW. The project is located in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
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| Crookwell Wind Farm, New South Wales |
Crookwell Wind Farm, located at Crookwell west of Goulburn, New South Wales, consists of eight 600kW wind turbines giving a total capacity of 4.8 MW. It was the first grid-connected wind farm in Australia when built by Pacific Power in 1998. It is...
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| Blayney Wind Farm, New South Wales |
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The Blayney Wind Farm is a wind power station at Lake Carcoar, south of Blayney, New South Wales, Australia. Blayney has fifteen wind turbines, with a total nameplate capacity of 9.9 MW of electricity.
Pacific Power International developed the wind...
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| Toora Wind Farm, Victoria |
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Toora Wind Farm is a wind power station at Toora in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is located is north of Wilsons Promontory and 150km SE of Melbourne. The wind farm is on a ridge overlooking the small town of Toora.
Toora has 12 wind...
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| Windy Hill Wind Farm, Queensland |
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Windy Hill Wind Farm is a wind power station near Ravenshoe on the Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. Windy Hill has 20 wind turbines with a generating capacity of 12MW of electricity.
The power station was commissioned in 2000 and was...
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| Lamma Island Wind Power Station |
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Lamma Winds (南丫風采發電站) is a wind turbine in Tai Ling, Lamma Island, Hong Kong, where the average wind velocity is 5.5 m/s.
Built near the Lamma Power Station and owned by Hongkong Electric, it provides 800kW of power to Hong Kong Island and Lamma...
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| Baywind Energy Co-operative |
Baywind Energy Co-operative was the first co-operative to own wind turbines in the United Kingdom.
Baywind was modelled on the similar wind turbine cooperatives and other renewable energy co-operatives that are common in Scandinavia , and was...
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| Muja Power Station, Western Australia |
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Muja Power Station is a power station 22km east of Collie, Western Australia. It has eight coal powered steam turbines that together generate a total capacity of 854 MW of electricity. The coal is mined in the nearby Collie Sub-basin.
The station...
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| Walkaway Wind Farm |
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Alinta Wind Farm, Western Australia |
Walkaway Wind Farm is a wind power station at Walkaway, just south of Geraldton, Western Australia.
The Walkaway Wind Farm, Western Australia's largest renewable energy project, provides 90 megawatts of power into the grid that supplies Perth and...
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| Albany Wind Farm, Western Australia |
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Albany Wind Farm is a wind power station near Albany, Western Australia. It has 12 wind turbines, with a generating capacity of 21 MW of electricity.
Albany Wind Farm was commissioned in October 2001.
The farm has 12 wind turbine generators situated...
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| Woolnorth Wind Farm, Tasmania |
Woolnorth Wind Farm is a wind power station at Woolnorth (Cape Grim), Tasmania, Australia. It is wholly owned and operated by Roaring 40s and has 62 wind turbines, with a generating capacity of 140 MW of electricity.
The first stage of the power...
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| Challicum Hills Wind Farm, Victoria |
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Challicum Hills Wind Farm is a wind farm of 35 wind turbines, with a total generating capacity of 52.5 MW of electricity. The wind farm is near Ararat in western Victoria, Australia. The power station was commissioned in August 2003 and is in a long...
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| Wonthaggi Wind Farm, Victoria |
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Wonthaggi Wind Farm is a wind power station at Wonthaggi in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It has six wind turbines, with a total generating capacity of 12 MW of electricity.
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| Starfish Hill Wind Farm, South Australia |
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Starfish Hill Wind Farm is a wind power station spread over two hills near Cape Jervis, South Australia. It has 23 wind turbines, eight on Starfish Hill itself and 15 on Salt Creek Hill, with a combined generating capacity of 34.5 MW of electricity....
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| Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm, South Australia |
Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm is a wind power station at Port Lincoln, South Australia. It has 33 wind turbines, with a combined generating capacity of 66 MW of electricity.
Cathedral Rocks Wind Farm was commissioned in June 2005. It comprises 33...
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| Muppandal |
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Muppandal (Tamil: முப்பந்தல்) is a small village on the southern tip of India in Kanyakumari District, in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is located in a hilly region where wind from the Arabian Sea gusts through mountain passes.
There is a legend that...
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| Arklow Bank Wind Park |
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Ireland's first offshore wind project, the Arklow Bank Wind Park in the Irish Sea, is now in operation. Installation of the project’s seven GE 3.6-megawatt machines, was completed in only nine weeks. Located around 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) off the...
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| London Array |
The London Array is a planned offshore wind farm in the outer Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom. Of 1 gigawatt capacity, it is expected to become the world's largest offshore wind farm.
The site is seven miles (11 km) off the North Foreland on...
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| Thanet Offshore Wind Project |
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The Thanet Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm which is under construction 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of Thanet district in Kent, England. It will cover 13.5 square miles (35 km²), and have a capacity of 300 MW. Thanet is one of 15 Round 2 wind...
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| Southwest Windpower |
Southwest Windpower is a wind turbine manufacturer established in 1987 based in Flagstaff, Arizona. The company specialises in small, reliable battery charging wind generators that complement photovoltaics (solar energy or PV) in supplying energy to...
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| Huxley Hill Wind Farm, Tasmania |
Huxley Hill Wind Farm (also known as the King Island Wind Farm) is a wind power station at King Island, Tasmania, Australia, owned by Hydro Tasmania.
The farm started generating in 1998 and has since been expanded twice, initially with three 250 kW...
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| Sorne Hill wind farm |
The Sorne Hill Wind Farm is a wind farm located in Buncrana, Inishowen Donegal Ireland and erected in 2006. The farm is run by Tapbury Management Limited.
Phase 1 of the farm has 16 gearless wind turbines, type Enercon E-70 2 [MW] with a 64 metre...
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| Wind rose |
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A wind rose is a graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location. Historically, wind roses were predecessors of the compass rose on maps, as there was no...
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| Buffalo Ridge |
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Buffalo Ridge is a large expanse of rolling hills in the southeastern part of the larger Coteau des Prairies, and is the second-highest point in Minnesota. It stands 1,995 feet (608 m) above sea level. Buffalo Ridge is sixty miles long and part of...
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| Greater Gabbard |
Greater Gabbard is a 500MW wind farm under construction on sandbanks 23 Km off the coast of Suffolk in England. Onshore construction activities commenced in early July 2008 at Sizewell and Siemens SWT3.6-107 turbines are projected to be delivered...
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| Windstar turbine |
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The Windstar vertical-axis turbine is a lift-type device with straight, extruded aluminum blades attached at each end to a central rotating shaft and are operated as Linear Array Vortex Turbine Systems (LAVTS). Vertical-axis rotors each with their...
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| Quietrevolution wind turbine |
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The Quietrevolution is a brand of (VAWT) vertical axis helical turbine. The helical design is most similar to the Gorlov helical turbine, both are an evolution of the Darrieus wind turbine. It has won several awards including the "Sustainable...
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| Vertical-axis wind turbine |
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Vertical Axis Wind Turbines |
Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWT) are a type of wind turbine where the main rotor shaft runs traverse to the flow streamlines, as Darrieus described in his US Patent 1835018. When one chooses to set that axis from ground to the zenith for a...
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| Canunda Wind Farm |
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Canunda Wind Farm (formerly named Lake Bonney Central Wind Farm) is a $92.5 million, 48 MW wind power project located on grazing land approximately 16 kilometres south of Millicent, and 6 kilometres west of Tantanoola in South Australia.
The wind...
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| Mount Millar Wind Farm |
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The Mount Millar Wind Farm is situated on an escarpment between the towns of Cowell and Cleve located 100 kilometres southwest of Whyalla, South Australia. The 35 wind turbines are positioned on the elongated Mt Millar site (about 7 kilometres in...
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| Lake Bonney Wind Farm |
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Lake Bonney Wind Farm, in South Australia, was built in two stages. Stage 1 consisted of 46 turbines each having a rated capacity of 1.75 MW (total 80.5 MW) and was finished in March 2005. Construction of Stage 2 began in November 2006 and was...
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| Dagenham wind turbines |
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The Dagenham wind turbines are two 85 m high Enercon E-70 wind turbines located on the Dagenham estate of the Ford Motor Company in east London, England. The turbines were completed in April 2004. They are landmarks of the skyline and the first ...
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| Altamont Pass Wind Farm |
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The Altamont Pass Wind Farm located in the Altamont Pass of the Diablo Range in Central California. It is a one of the earliest wind farms in the United States. The wind farm is composed of over 4900 relatively small wind turbines of various types,...
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