Klondike Wind farm is located in
Sherman County, east of the small agricultural community of
Wasco Wasco is the name of four places in the United States:
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* Wasco, California, a city in California
** Wasco State Prison, located in Wasco, California
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, in the north-central part of the
U.S. state of
Oregon
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. It was built in four phases and is owned and operated by
Iberdrola.
The first phase was built in 2001 and the latest in 2008.
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,
World's largest aircraft
/ref> manufactured in Japan. During the construction of the last phase, an accident killed one worker and injured another.
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Phase I
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Energy infrastructure completed in 2001
Energy infrastructure completed in 2008
Buildings and structures in Sherman County, Oregon
Wind farms in Oregon
2001 establishments in Oregon