Klondike Wind Farm

Klondike Wind Farm
Turbines at the Klondike Wind Farm
Location of Klondike Wind Farm in Oregon
Country	United States
Location	Sherman County, near Wasco, Oregon
Coordinates	45°34′48″N 120°36′36″W / 45.58000°N 120.61000°WCoordinates: 45°34′48″N 120°36′36″W / 45.58000°N 120.61000°W
Status	Operational
Owner(s)	Iberdrola
Wind farm
Type	Onshore
Power generation
Units operational	197 x 1.5 MW 44 x 2.3 MW 1 x 2.4 MW
Make and model	Enron Wind General Electric
Nameplate capacity	399.1 MW

Klondike Wind farm is located in Sherman County, east of the small agricultural community of Wasco, in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in four phases and is owned and operated by Iberdrola.^[1] The first phase was built in 2001^[2] and the latest in 2008.

Phase	Capacity (MW)[3]	Type	number of turbines
Klondike I	24	Enron Wind	16
Klondike II	75	GE Energy	50
Klondike III	120	GE Energy	80
	101.2	Siemens	44
	2.4	Mitsubishi	1
Klondike IIIa	76.5	GE Energy	51
Total	399.1		242

The wind farm is currently a test site for some new wind turbines, notably the Mitsubishi MWT92, a 2.4 megawatt turbine with a rotor diameter larger than the wingspan of any production aircraft at 92 meters,^[4] manufactured in Japan. During the construction of the last phase, an accident killed one worker and injured another.^[5]

References

1. "Eastern Oregon's Klondike Wind Power Projects Serve as Testing Ground for Next-Generation Turbine Technology". Iberdrola Renewables. September 24, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
2. "Klondike Wind Farm". BPA. Retrieved 2009-04-26.
3. AWEA page
4. World's largest aircraft
5. Dalles Chronicle

External links

• Phase I