Klondike Wind Farm

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Klondike Wind Farm
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Turbines at the Klondike Wind Farm
CountryUnited States
Location Sherman County, near Wasco, Oregon
Coordinates 45°34′48″N120°36′36″W / 45.58000°N 120.61000°W / 45.58000; -120.61000 Coordinates: 45°34′48″N120°36′36″W / 45.58000°N 120.61000°W / 45.58000; -120.61000
StatusOperational
Owner(s) Iberdrola
Wind farm
Type Onshore
Power generation
Units operational197 x 1.5 MW
44 x 2.3 MW
1 x 2.4 MW
Make and modelEnron Wind
General Electric
Nameplate capacity 399.1 MW

Klondike Wind farm is located in Sherman County, east of the small agricultural community of Wasco, in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in four phases and is owned and operated by Iberdrola. [1] The first phase was built in 2001 [2] and the latest in 2008.

Sherman County, Oregon U.S. county in Oregon

Sherman County is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,765, making it the second-least populous county in Oregon. The county seat is Moro, and the largest city is Wasco. The county is named for William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union general in the American Civil War.

Wasco, Oregon City in Oregon, United States

Wasco is a city in Sherman County, Oregon, United States. The population was 410 at the 2010 census.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders.

PhaseCapacity (MW) [3] Typenumber of
turbines
Klondike I24Enron Wind16
Klondike II75GE Energy50
Klondike III120GE Energy80
101.2Siemens44
2.4Mitsubishi1
Klondike IIIa76.5GE Energy51
Total399.1242

The wind farm is currently a test site for some new wind turbines, notably the Mitsubishi MWT92, a 2.4 megawatt turbine with a rotor diameter larger than the wingspan of any production aircraft at 92 meters, [4] manufactured in Japan. During the construction of the last phase, an accident killed one worker and injured another. [5]

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References

  1. "Eastern Oregon's Klondike Wind Power Projects Serve as Testing Ground for Next-Generation Turbine Technology". Iberdrola Renewables. September 24, 2008. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  2. "Klondike Wind Farm". BPA. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
  3. AWEA page Archived 2010-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. World's largest aircraft
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