The Somerset Wind Farm is a wind farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania with six GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbines that began commercial operation in October 2001. The wind farm has a combined total nameplate capacity of 9 MW, and produces about 25,000 megawatt-hours of electricity annually, which is roughly a 30% capacity factor.[1] The wind farm was constructed by NextEra Energy Resources, based in Florida.[2]

The wind farm is just one-half mile (0.80 km) south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which makes its 215-foot-tall (66 m)[3] towers easily visible to turnpike travelers.[4]

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  1. ^ Exelon | Somerset Wind Farm Archived 2007-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Wind Farms in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Wind Working Group, accessed March 1, 2010.
  3. ^ Penn Announces Largest U.S. Wind-Energy Purchase Archived 2009-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Welcome to Horizon Wind Energy Archived 2007-02-18 at the Wayback Machine

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