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The San Gorgonio Pass wind farm in California, United States. The Gansu Wind Farm in China is the largest wind farm in the world, with a target capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020. A wind farm or wind park, or wind power plant, [1] is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small ...
The 30 megawatt Cullerin Range Wind Farm is located in the localities of Cullerin and Breadalbane in the Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The wind farm was completed in 2009 and cost around $90 million. [1] The owner, Origin Energy, sold the business to Energy Developments, a subsidiary of Duet. [2]
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 March 2006 [1] and has five 1.5 MW turbines built by General Electric. Each wind turbine reaches a height of 380 feet (120 m). [2] [3]
South Fork Wind Farm is a utility-scale offshore wind farm on the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Rhode Island, providing energy to New York state. [5]The 130 MW, 12-turbine wind is 16.6 nautical miles (30.7 km; 19.1 mi) southeast of Rhode Island's Block Island and 26 nautical miles (48 km; 30 mi) east of Montauk Point on the South Fork of New York's Long Island.
The Capital Wind Farm was built for Infigen Energy by Suzlon Energy. [4] It was constructed as part of the Kurnell Desalination Plant project to offset the power usage of the desalination plant. [5] [6] "The wind farm has been designed to produce more than enough energy to operate the desalination plant to cover the days when there is less wind.
The Scroby Sands offshore wind farm was opened by E-ON in 2004. When the site first opened it had 30 turbines that were estimated to provide 60MW of renewable energy - enough to supply around ...
The Myponga Wind Farm was a wind farm proposal by TrustPower in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges, on the Fleurieu Peninsula 50 km south of Adelaide, between the towns of Myponga and Sellicks Beach. Development approval was granted in 2003, [47] and the project was planned to be operational by the end of 2010. [48] The approval was revoked in ...
It is the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere generating enough power for 220,000 homes and abating 1.7 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, at a capacity factor of 35%. [4] The wind farm comprises 140 Vestas V112-3.0MW wind turbines manufactured in Denmark.