Green Mountain Wind Energy Center

The Green Mountain Wind Energy Center is a wind power plant near Garrett, Somerset County, Pennsylvania with eight Nordex 1.3 MW turbines that began commercial operation in May 2000.[1] This was the first commercial wind farm constructed in Pennsylvania.[2] The wind farm has a combined total nameplate capacity of 10.4 MW and the potential to produce about 27,000 megawatt-hours of electricity annually, enough to power 3,300 homes, assuming a 30% capacity factor.[3] The wind farm was developed by National Wind Power of the UK, now part of NPower Renewables, operated by NextEra Energy Resources, based in Florida.[4] Energy from the wind farm is purchased and sold by Green Mountain Energy based in Texas,[4] and was the first commercial wind farm for Green Mountain Energy.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Wind farms in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Wind Working Group, accessed March 3, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Green Mountain Energy facilities Green Mountain Energy, accessed March 3, 2010.
  3. ↑ Wind farms in Pennsylvania PennFuture: Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, accessed March 3, 2010.
  4. 1 2 Commercial Wind Power in Pennsylvania accessed March 3, 2010.

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Coordinates: 39°50′58.13″N 79°04′06.11″W / 39.8494806°N 79.0683639°W / 39.8494806; -79.0683639


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