Kent Hills Wind Farm
Kent Hills Wind Farm is a large wind farm project located southeast from Prosser Brook, New Brunswick. The wind farm was completed in three phases between 2008 and 2018. The farm was the first in New Brunswick. It is owned and operated by TransAlta and the power is purchased by NB Power for supply to consumers.
As of 2021, the farm consisted of forty-nine 3-megawatt (MW) wind turbines and 5 3.45-MW turbines, for a total capacity of 167 MW. The project produces 580,000 megawatt hours per year. The turbines used are Vestas V90-3MW model, which have a rotor diameter of 90 metres (295 ft) and sit atop an 80-metre (262 ft) tower.
In October 2021 a tower, in phase two of the project, collapsed because of a bad foundation. Initially all WTG were taken off line as a precaution. TransAlta Renewables have found deficiencies in the design of all of the windmill foundations. Costs to replace them are quoted to be 75-100 million dollars.
It is the largest wind farm in Atlantic Canada.
See also
References
- ^ "Kent Hills". Trans Alta Clean Power. TransAlta Corporation. Archived from the original on 24 November 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "Kent Hills Transmission Line". NB Power. 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
- ^ "TransAlta expands Kent Hills wind power project". TransAlta. 2007-07-17. Archived from the original on 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
- ^ "TransAlta wind farm in N.B. Temporarily taken offline after tower collapse". MSN. Archived from the original on 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
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