The Sorne Hill Wind Farm is a

wind farm A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turb ...

located in

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, Inishowen

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. The development was completed in 2006 and is operated by Bord Gáis Energy.

Turbines

Phase 1 of the farm has 16 gearless wind turbines, type

Enercon Enercon GmbH is a wind turbine manufacturer based in Aurich, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has been the market leader in Germany since the mid-1990s. Enercon has production facilities in Germany (Aurich, Emden and Magdeburg), Brazil, India, Canada, ...

E-70 2 Wwith a 64-metre hub height and 71 metre rotor diameter giving a total capacity of 32 megawatts. Phase 2 of the farm, which is an additional 6.9 MW from three

E-70 2.3 MW turbines, were installed in the Autumn of 2007. This made brought the capacity of Sorne Hill Wind Farm to 38 MW.

References

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