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Bithugalgama බිතුගල්ගම | |
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  Bithugalgama | |
| Coordinates: 6°37′26″N80°44′41″E / 6.6239°N 80.7448°E | |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Province | Sabaragamuwa Province |
| District | Balangoda |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time) |
| Sri Lanka Post | 70100 |
| Area code | 045 |
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Lists of wind farms include:
The Hambantota Wind Farm was a wind farm in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, owned and operated by the state-run Ceylon Electricity Board. The wind farm, which was located along south-eastern coast of Hambantota was the country's first state owned wind farm, and consisted of five NEG Micon M1500-600 wind turbines of 600 KW each. With a total installed capacity of 3 MW, the wind farm generated up to approximately 4,500 MWh of power a year.
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The Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm is a small wind farm in Ambewela, owned and operated by Ace Wind Power, a subsidiary of Aitken Spence. As of October 2012, it is one of the only few operating multi-megawatt wind farms in Sri Lanka. The wind farm consists of 12 wind turbines of 250 KW each, totalling the plant installed capacity to 3 megawatts. The wind turbines are of type HSW 250T, originally built 1992.
The Mampuri Wind Farms are a set of three wind farms located near the Lakvijaya Power Station, on the Kalpitiya peninsula, in Mampuri, Puttalam District, Sri Lanka. The wind farms, referred to as Mampuri-I, Mampuri-II, and Mampuri-III, was built successively, and consists of eighteen Suzlon wind turbines ranging from 1.25 MW to 2.10 MW. Mampuri-I was commissioned on 22 March 2010, and was the first wind farm in the country to reach the 10 MW installed capacity threshold. As the government only allows projects up to 10 MW, the three wind farms are registered under three different company names, namely Senok Wind Power, Senok Wind Energy, and Senok Wind Resource.
The Seguwantivu and Vidatamunai Wind Farms are two legally separate wind farms built together by Seguwantivu Wind Power and Vidatamunai Wind Power, on the south-east shore of the Puttalam Lagoon, in Puttalam, Sri Lanka.
The Uppudaluwa Wind Farm is a 10.5 MW wind farm owned by PowerGen Lanka (Private) Limited in Uppudaluwa, Puttalam, Sri Lanka.
The Nirmalapura Wind Farm is a 10 MW wind farm consisting of seven wind turbines, located on the west coast of Nirmalapura, Puttalam, Sri Lanka. The plant is owned by Nirmalapura Wind Power (Private) Limited, and was commissioned in September 2011.
The Madurankuliya Wind Farm is a 12 MW wind farm located in Narakkaliya, bordering the Lakvijaya Power Station, in Narakkaliya, Puttalam, Sri Lanka. The wind farm is operated by Daily Life Renewable Energy (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of WindForce (Pvt) Ltd, which owns most of the existing wind farms in the country. The facility consists of eight ReGen VENSYS 82 wind turbines of 1.5 MW each. With a hub height of 85 m (279 ft) and a rotor diameter of 82 m (269 ft), these turbines has rated wind speeds of 13 m/s (43 ft/s), despite the site only experiencing about 7.4 m/s (24 ft/s). The wind farm experiences air densities of 1.158 kg/m3 (0.072 lb/cu ft).
The Pawan Danavi Wind Farm is a 10.2 MW onshore wind farm located near Kalpitiya, in the Puttalam District of Sri Lanka. The wind farm utilizes twelve of Gamesa's G58-850 kW wind turbines. Pawan Danavi is a subsidiary company of LTL Holdings.
The Pollupalai and Vallimunai Wind Farms are two wind farms built together by Joule Power and Beta Power, on the north-eastern shore of the Jaffna Lagoon, in Pachchilaipalli, Sri Lanka. Both wind farms are owned by the parent company WindForce, and have an installed capacity of 12 megawatts each, and an annual production of approximately 60 GWh. The wind farms are the first-ever to be constructed in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
The Nala Danavi Wind Farm is a 4.8 megawatt onshore wind farm in Erumbukkudal, on the Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka. The wind farm is operated by Nala Danavi (Private) Limited, which is a subsidiary of LTL Holdings. The facility consists of six wind turbines measuring 800 KW each.
The Vallibel Wind Farm is a small 850 Kilowatt onshore wind farm built near the village of Bithugalgama, in the Ratnapura District of Sri Lanka. The wind farm is owned and operated by Willwind (Private) Limited. The facility consists of seven wind turbines measuring approximately 121 KW each.
The Thambapavani Wind Farm named after Thambapanni and Pavan meaning wing in Sinhalese. Also called Mannar Island Wind Farm or Mannar Wind Farm) is a 100-megawatt wind farm which was built on the southern coast of the Mannar Island, in Sri Lanka. The project would cost approximately US$200 million, 78% of which will be borne by the Asian Development Bank, while the remaining 22% will be borne by the developers, the Ceylon Electricity Board. Identification of land plots and ownership has already begun. It is currently regarded as the largest wind farm in Sri Lanka and it is also the first wind power plant to be owned by the Ceylon Electricity Board.
The Solar One Ceylon Power Station is a 12.56-megawatt solar photovoltaic farm built in January 2017 at Welikanda, in the Polonnaruwa District of Sri Lanka. The solar farm utilizes 315W and 320W polycrystalline modules manufactured by JA Solar Holdings, which are installed over 624 single-axis solar trackers supplied by the Spanish firm Grupo Clavijo. The trackers are expected to boost production up by 20%, compared to a fixed tilt setup.
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