The Casselman Wind Power Project is a wind farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, with 23 GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbines that began commercial operation in 2007. The wind farm has a combined total nameplate capacity of 34.5 megawatts, but actually produces about 90,666 megawatt-hours of electricity annually.Wind farms in Pennsylvania PennFuture: Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, accessed March 7, 2010. The wind farm was developed by PPM Energy and constructed by Iberdrola, based in Spain.Casselman Wind Power Project Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010. Power produced at the wind farm is distributed by First Energy.New wind farm now online Industrial Wind Action Group, February 2, 2008. Accessed March 7, 2010.First Energy Solutions Green Power accessed March 7, 2010.
Eight of the project's 23 wind turbines sit atop a rehabilitated surface mine. In addition, the former mining site also hosts the wind farm's operation center, collector transformer and interconnection facility.Casselman Wind Power Project fact sheet Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010.
See also
Wind power in Pennsylvania
References
External links Casselman Wind Power Project, Iberdrola Renewables GE Wind 1.5 MW Series Wind Turbine