Klondike Wind farm is located in Sherman County, east of the small agricultural community of Wasco, in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in four phases and is owned and operated by Iberdrola. The first phase was built in 2001 and the latest in 2008.
Phase Capacity (MW) Type number ofturbines Klondike I 24 Enron Wind 16 Klondike II 75 GE Energy 50 Klondike III 120 GE Energy 80 101.2 Siemens 44 2.4 Mitsubishi 1 Klondike IIIa 76.5 GE Energy 51 Total 399.1 242
The wind farm is currently a test site for some new wind turbines, notably the Mitsubishi MWT92, a 2.4 megawatt turbine with a rotor diameter larger than the wingspan of any production aircraft at 92 meters,World's largest aircraft manufactured in Japan. During the construction of the last phase, an accident killed one worker and injured another. Oregon OSHA fined the manufacturer for safety violations.
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Phase I