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The Ashtabula Wind I, II and III Energy Center is the largest wind farm in North Dakota, US.
The farm, named for its proximity to Lake Ashtabula, is split across two sites: Ashtabula I and III which are in Barnes County; and Ashtabula II, which is spread across Griggs County and Steele County.
The three plants are operated by subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources, the largest wind power generator in the US.
The wind farm has a total of 250 turbines supplied by GE. The turbines are 260ft in height (from the ground to the centre of the hub), with 120ft-long blades and a rotor diameter of 82.5m. The cut-in wind speed is 8mph and cut-out wind speed is 56mph.
Ashtabula I consists of 131 turbines with 1.5MW rated capacity each. It is spread across 77 square miles, and has a total installed capacity of 196.5MW. NextEra Energy owns and operates 99 of these turbines (148.5MW), while the remaining 32 turbines (48MW) are owned by Otter Tail Power Company. Commercial operations began in November 2008.
Ashtabula II is fully owned and operated by NextEra Energy. The site has 80 turbines and an installed capacity of 120MW. Commercial operations commenced in 2009.
Ashtabula III generates 62.5MW and was commissioned in 2010. It is built next to Ashtabula I and has 39 turbines with 1.6MW rated capacity.
The wind farm shares transmission assets with Ashtabula I.
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ASHTABULA I[/mk_fancy_title][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” divider_width=”custom_width” custom_width=”258″ align=”left” border_color=”#444444″ thickness=”3″ margin_top=”24″ margin_bottom=”40″][mk_custom_list style=”e651″ icon_color=”#5dc677″ margin_bottom=”130″ align=”left”]
- Location: Barnes County, North Dakota, US
- Number of Turbines: 131 turbines
- Tip Height: 380ft
- Hub Height: 260ft
- Turbine Rating: 1.5MW
- Total expected installed capacity: 196.5MW
- Owner: NextEra Energy owns 99 turbines; Otter Tail Power
- Company owns 32 turbines
- Year of Operation: 2008
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- Location: Griggs and Steele counties, North Dakota, US.
- Number of Turbines: 80 turbines
- Tip Height: 380ft
- Hub Height: 260ft
- Turbine Rating: 1.5MW
- Total expected installed capacity: 120MW
- Owner: NextEra Energy
- Year of Operation: 2009
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ASHTABULA III[/mk_fancy_title][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” divider_width=”custom_width” custom_width=”258″ align=”left” border_color=”#444444″ thickness=”3″ margin_top=”24″ margin_bottom=”40″][mk_custom_list style=”e651″ icon_color=”#5dc677″ margin_bottom=”130″ align=”left”]
- Location: Barnes County, North Dakota, US
- Number of Turbines: 39 turbines
- Tip Height: 380ft
- Hub Height: 260ft
- Turbine Rating: 1.6MW
- Total expected installed capacity: 62.4MW
- Owner: NextEra Energy
- Year of Operation: 2010
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The project produce enough electricity to power 99,000 homes and creates no air or water pollution, uses no water in the generation of electricity and allows land to remain in agricultural use.
The combined contribution of the two SunEdison projects, Ashtabula I, II & III will generate the total amount of 189450 Environmental Credits, each throughout the lifetime of the projects.
The Environmental Credits generated by Newboro Solar Projects will be assigned to citizens willing to contribute to climate change mitigation to offset their Personal Climate Footprint, and be part of a global movement to fight now climate change.
Environmental Credits account the compensation effect of the temperature rise generated by the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions and/or the reduction in heat absorption by changes in physical properties of the use of land in specific projects.
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