Port Burwell Wind Farm (formerly known as the Erie Shores Wind Farm) is a large wind farm near Port Burwell, Ontario, Canada. The facility stretches approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) to the west of the town, and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) to the southeast.
In 2004, Port Burwell was awarded a generation contract by the Government of Ontario as part of its renewable energy plan. This wind farm was officially opened on April 13, 2006 to the delight of progressive leaders and to the dismay of local residents and bird conservationists.
The project comprises 66 GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbines (model 1.5 SLE). Each turbine has a blade diameter of 77 metres (253 ft), and is mounted on an 80 metre (260 ft) tubular tower.
An important measure of renewable energy generation is the capacity factor (actual output per year divided by the nameplate output). In 2009 the output was 232,296 megawatt-hours (836,270 GJ) and in 2010 the output was 227,778 megawatt-hours (820,000 GJ), so the capacity factor was 26.8% and 26.2% respectively. Published reports show that the developers were expecting the capacity factor to be higher – 28.6% to 32%.
Year | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total |
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2006 | 780 | 2,726 | 9,145 | 12,226 | 8,393 | 18,044 | 25,678 | 14,420 | 32,949 | 124,361 | |||
2007 | 27,634 | 31,724 | 29,335 | 25,257 | 14,229 | 11,814 | 10,728 | 9,301 | 7,955 | 23,845 | 26,039 | 25,285 | 183,788 |
2008 | 38,123 | 20,368 | 23,256 | 19,545 | 19,029 | 15,180 | 12,295 | 10,853 | 11,875 | 23,044 | 23,076 | 37,186 | 195,339 |
2009 | 28,053 | 23,673 | 20,186 | 29,483 | 17,401 | 8,577 | 10,267 | 12,469 | 12,453 | 24,904 | 17,844 | 26,964 | 180,548 |
2010 | 26,269 | 15,324 | 18,913 | 21,368 | 19,610 | 13,066 | 9,122 | 9,510 | 18,376 | 23,895 | 23,582 | 28,725 | 186,167 |
2011 | 20,142 | 31,043 | 19,439 | 25,301 | 14,633 | 12,641 | 8,801 | 9,394 | 13,753 | 20,943 | 34,548 | 26,020 | 185,473 |
2012 | 33,682 | 25,593 | 24,667 | 19,700 | 12,548 | 15,199 | 9,338 | 81,452 |
Famous quotes containing the words port, wind and/or farm:
“When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)
“The wind is old and still at play
While I must hurry upon my way,
For I am running to Paradise;
Yet never have I lit on a friend
To take my fancy like the wind
That nobody can buy or bind....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)