Elmira, Prince Edward Island
Elmira is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, located in Lot 47 of Kings County, northeast of Souris.
CBC Television's CBCT and CBC Radio One's CBCT-FM maintain rebroadcasters at Elmira to serve the portion of eastern Prince Edward Island which lies outside the broadcast range of those stations' main transmitters in Charlottetown.
[edit] Eastern Kings wind farm
Is a wind farm located at Souris-Elmira, PEI, Canada. It was completed January 22, 2007. It is owned and operated by PEI Energy Corporation.[1]
The wind farm consists of ten Vestas V90 wind turbines 3 MW. Annual production will be 90-95 million kilowatt hours. The average house uses about 8,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually so the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power about 12,000 homes.[2] The Eastern Kings Wind Farm will supply about 7.5% of PEI’s electricity and displace 75,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. The project capital cost was approximately $47 million.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.420
- ^ http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/getrelease.php3?number=5111
- ^ http://www.gov.pe.ca/envengfor/index.php3?number=1012553&lang=E
Coordinates: 46°26′20.1″N 62°3′57.9″W / 46.438917°N 62.066083°W
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