Casselman Wind Power Project

The Casselman Wind Power Project is a wind farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania with 23 GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbines that began commercial operation in 2007. The wind farm has a combined total nameplate capacity of 34.5 megawatts, but actually produces about 90,666 megawatt-hours of electricity annually.[1] The wind farm was developed by PPM Energy and constructed by Iberdrola, based in Spain.[1][2] Power produced at the wind farm is distributed by First Energy.[3][4]

Turbines at the Casselman Wind Farm in Somerset County, PA.

Eight of the project's 23 wind turbines sit atop a rehabilitated surface mine. In addition, the former mining site also hosts the wind farm's operation center, collector transformer and interconnection facility.[5]

See also

References
  1. Wind farms in Pennsylvania Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine PennFuture: Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, accessed March 7, 2010.
  2. Casselman Wind Power Project Archived 2010-10-29 at the Wayback Machine Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010.
  3. New wind farm now online Industrial Wind Action Group, February 2, 2008. Accessed March 7, 2010.
  4. First Energy Solutions Green Power accessed March 7, 2010.
  5. Casselman Wind Power Project fact sheet Archived November 23, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.