Kent Hills Wind Farm

Kent Hills Wind Farm is a large wind farm project near Moncton, New Brunswick which is expected to be complete and in operation by late 2008.cite web|url= http://www.visionquestwind.com/proposed.asp?pg=kenthills&mi=04&bdy=0&id=proposed|title=Kent Hills Wind Farm| date=2007-07-18| accessdate=2008-09-05] The farm will be the first in New Brunswick. It will be owned and operated by TransAlta and the power will be purchased by NB Power for supply to consumers.cite web|url= http://transmission.nbpower.com/en/kenthills/kenthills.aspx|title=Kent Hills Transmission Line| date=2007-08-10| accessdate=2008-09-05]

The farm will consist of thirty-two 3 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for a total capacity of 96 MW making it one of the largest wind farms in Canada. The project will produce enough power for 17,000 homes. The turbines used will be the Vestas V90-3MW which has a rotor diameter of 90m and sits atop an 80m tower.

There are plans to expand the wind farm by an extra 18 turbines at an undetermined date in the future.

When complete it will provide 280,000 megawatt hours per year.cite web|url= http://www.transalta.com/transalta/webcms.nsf/AllDoc/8B9FAE1383E2E0C98725731B004A8539?OpenDocument|title=TransAlta expands Kent Hills wind power project| date=2007-07-17| accessdate=2008-09-04]

ee also

*List of wind farms in Canada

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