Elmira, Prince Edward Island

Elmira is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, located in Lot 47 of Kings County, northeast of Souris.

CBC Television's CBCT and CBC Radio One's CBCT-FM maintain rebroadcasters at Elmira to serve the portion of eastern Prince Edward Island which lies outside the broadcast range of those stations' main transmitters in Charlottetown.

Eastern Kings wind farm

Is a wind farm located at Souris-Elmira, PEI, Canada. It was completed January 22, 2007. It is owned and operated by PEI Energy Corporation.[1]

The wind farm consists of ten Vestas V90 wind turbines 3 MW. Annual production will be 90-95 million kilowatt hours. The average house uses about 8,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually so the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power about 12,000 homes.[2] The Eastern Kings Wind Farm will supply about 7.5% of PEI’s electricity and displace 75,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. The project capital cost was approximately $47 million.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.420
  2. ↑ http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/getrelease.php3?number=5111
  3. ↑ http://www.gov.pe.ca/envengfor/index.php3?number=1012553&lang=E

Coordinates: 46°26′20.1″N 62°3′57.9″W / 46.438917°N 62.066083°W / 46.438917; -62.066083 (Elmira, Prince Edward Island)


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