Soma Wind Farm is an onshore

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in the northwestern Aegean Region of

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. Built in two phases and consisting of 119

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s with an installed output power of 140 MW in total, it is one of Turkey's largest wind farms. The wind farm, distributed over a large mountainous terrain, extends over a land area of . The wind farm was constructed and is operated by Polat Energy, a joint venture company of Polat Holding, which is owned by former Galatasaray S.K. president

Adnan Polat Adnan Polat (born 1953 in Erzurum) graduated from Işık High School in 1971 and Long Island University Business Management department in 1976. He started working in the construction sites of Polat İnşaat Anonim Şirketi, affiliated with Polat ...

, and the French company

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Technical details

Soma Wind Farm was built in two phases, called Soma-1 and Soma-2. Average total annual energy generated is 405 GWh. The cost of the project totalled to €170 million. It was completed and commissioned in January 2012. The first phase, consisting of 88 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 79.2 MW manufactured by

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, cost

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100 million, and was commissioned in December 2010. Each of the E-44 type turbines with rotor diameter at hub height generates 900 KW power. 50 of the wind turbines are atop of steel towers while the rest were installed on precast concrete towers. In the second phase, 31 wind turbines were erected, one of E-44 type and 30 of E-70 type, which having a rotor diameter of at hub height generate each 2.3 MW. The second phase extended the wind farm's power capacity about 60.9 MW. The area has extreme winter conditions that cause icing of the rotor blades. To prevent this, some turbines are equipped with de-icing system. Soma Wind Farm is Turkey's only wind power plant feeding electricity into grid at 380 kV.

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