The Mampuri Wind Farms (also known as the Senok Wind Farms, after its developers) are a set of three

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s located near the

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, on the

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peninsula, in Mampuri,

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. The wind farms, referred to as Mampuri-I, Mampuri-II, and Mampuri-III, was built successively, and consists of eighteen

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s ranging from to . Mampuri-I was commissioned on 22 March 2010, and was the first wind farm in the country to reach the installed capacity threshold. As the government only allows projects up to , the three wind farms are registered under three different company names, namely , , and .

Mampuri-I

Mampuri-I is built on a strip of land, and utilizes eight wind turbines with rotor diameters of at rated wind speeds of . Per the government's standardized

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, the

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pays Senok for every

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generated for the first eight years, followed by an adjusted rate thereafter. This phase created 40 jobs in the region, and cost to build. 55% of this was directly funded by Senok, with the remainder was funded by the

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Mampuri-II and Mampuri-III

Mampuri-II and Mampuri-III were constructed almost simultaneously after Mampuri-I. These wind farms utilizes five wind turbines each. The wind turbines measures tall, with rotor diameters of , and has rated wind speed of .

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Mampuri-I

Mampuri-II and Mampuri-III

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