The Vansycle I Wind Project (formerly Vansycle Wind Project) 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 Wind power, to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundre ...
in
Umatilla County, Oregon. It consists of 38
Vestas 0.66
MW wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...
s at the upper end of Vansycle Canyon with a collective nameplate generating capacity of 25.08
MW. The project was the first commercial wind energy project constructed and operated in Oregon and began operation in December 1998.
The wind turbines were constructed on leased portions of privately owned farms thereby sparing developers from buying property for the turbines and allowing farmers to generate extra income.
Like nearby
Stateline Wind Project
The Stateline Wind Farm is a wind farm located on Vansycle Ridge, which receives 16 to 18 mph (26 – 29 km/h) average wind speeds from the Columbia Gorge, on the border between Washington and Oregon in the United States. With 454 ...
, Vansycle Wind Project is owned and operated by
NextEra Energy Resources formerly known as FPL Energy.
The approximate center of the wind farm is located about west-southwest of
Walla Walla, Washington . The project consists of two separate strings of 28 and 10 turbines respectively. The center of the western string of 28 turbines is located at about . The center of the eastern string of 10 turbines is located at about .
The Vansycle II Wind Project consists of 43 Siemens 2.3 MW wind turbines for a total nameplate generating capacity of 98.9 MW and is erected to the east and south of the earlier Vansycle I Wind Power project. The Vansycle II project went into commercial operation on December 7, 2009.
See also
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Wind power in the United States
Wind power is a branch of the energy industry that has expanded quickly in the United States over the last several years. From January through December 2021, 379.8 terawatt-hours were generated by wind power, or 9.23% of electricity in the U ...
References
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Energy infrastructure completed in 1998
Buildings and structures in Umatilla County, Oregon
Wind farms in Oregon
1998 establishments in Oregon
NextEra Energy