The EDP Peştera Wind Farm is located in Peștera a commune in the

Constanța County Constanța () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 684,082 and the population density was 96/km2. The deg ...

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. Costing €200 million, the wind farm consists of 30 three-bladed Danish

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s, each capable of generating 3

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(MW) of power, giving a total output of 90 MW. The EDP Peştera Wind Farm is the sister project of the

EDP Cernavodă Wind Farm The EDP Cernavodă Wind Farm is located in Cernavodă, Constanța County, Romania. It has 46 individual wind turbines with a nominal output of around 3 MW which delivers up to 138 MW of power, enough to power over 85,000 homes, which required a c ...

, a 138 MW wind farm located west of the Peştera farm close to the

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and the

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. The wind farm is owned by

EDP Renováveis EDP Renováveis ( en, EDP Renewables, EDPR) is a leading renewable energy company registered in Oviedo and headquartered in Madrid that designs, develops, manages and operates power plants that generate electricity using renewable energy sources. ...

, the

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branch of the

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conglomerate

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