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Granite Reliable Wind Farm

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Country
  
United States

Commission date
  
December 2011

Type
  
Onshore

Construction began
  
February 2011

Status
  
Operational

Owner(s)
  
Brookfield Renewable

Make and model
  
Vestas

Units operational
  
33

Granite Reliable Wind Farm

Location
  
Coos County, New Hampshire

Granite Reliable Wind Farm is a 99-megawatt wind farm, opened in 2011 in Millsfield and Dixville, New Hampshire, in the northeast United States. Owned by Brookfield Renewable, it is the second major wind-power installation in the state of New Hampshire. Most of the electricity generated will be sold to utilities in Vermont, Central Vermont Public Service and Green Mountain Power. Power from the wind turbines is connected through three 34.5 kV lines to a substation and from there through a 115 kV line. The wind farm was constructed by Madison, Wisconsin-based RMT Inc.

Located in Millsfield and Dixville, in Coos County, it has 33 V90-3.0 MW Vestas turbines wind turbines, in four sections, with seven wind turbines on Dixville Peak, eight located on Mount Kelsey, six on Owlhead Mountain, and 12 wind turbines along Fishbrook Ridge. It was originally developed by Noble Energy, and sold to Brookfield.

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Granite Reliable Wind Farm Wikipedia