The Wild Horse Wind Farm is a 273-megawatt

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that generates energy for

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that consists of one hundred twenty seven 1.8-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines and twenty two 2.0-megawatt Vestas V80 turbines on a site in

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, east of

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. The turbines are placed on the high open Shrub-steppe ridge tops of Whiskey Dick Mountain, which was chosen for its energetic wind resource, remote location, and access to nearby power transmission lines. The towers are tall, and each blade is long, with a total rotor diameter of , larger than the wingspan of a

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747. The turbines can begin producing electricity with wind speeds as low as and reach full production at . They shut down at sustained wind speeds of . The site is also home to one of the largest solar array (500 kW) in Washington.Wild Horse Wind Facility
/ref> The wind farm was developed by Horizon Wind (formerly owned by Goldman Sachs, later sold to EDP)

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, a subsidiary of Energias de Portugal S.A. (EDP), a Portuguese utility company and built by Puget Sound Energy (PSE), an electric and gas distribution utility in the State of Washington. Construction began in October 2005 and was completed in December 2006. An expansion was completed in 2009. The Wild Horse Wind Farm also has a visitor center called the Renewable Energy Center, with guided tours of a Silicon Energy Solar array, a 1.8 MW wind turbine generator, a wind turbine blade, and includes a look inside the base of a wind turbine.

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