The Casselman Wind Power Project is a

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, with 23 GE 1.5 MW Wind Turbines that began commercial operation in 2007. The

has a combined total

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s, but actually produces about 90,666 megawatt-hours of electricity annually.Wind farms in Pennsylvania
PennFuture: Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, accessed March 7, 2010. The wind farm was developed by PPM Energy and constructed by

Iberdrola Iberdrola, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. It has around 40,000 employees and serves around 30 million customers. Subsidiary, Subsidiaries include ScottishPower (United Kingdom), Ava ...

, based in

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.Casselman Wind Power Project
Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010. Power produced at the wind farm is distributed by

First Energy FirstEnergy Corp. is an electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio. It was established when Ohio Edison merged with Centerior Energy in 1997. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in distributing, transmitting, and generating electrici ...

.New wind farm now online
Industrial Wind Action Group, February 2, 2008. Accessed March 7, 2010.
accessed March 7, 2010. Eight of the project's 23

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s sit atop a rehabilitated

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. In addition, the former mining site also hosts the wind farm's operation center, collector transformer and interconnection facility.Casselman Wind Power Project fact sheet
Iberdrola, accessed March 7, 2010.

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Casselman Wind Power Project

Iberdrola Renewables Iberdrola Renovables was a subsidiary of Iberdrola, headquartered in Valencia, Spain, which included companies in the domains of renewable energy, particularly wind power. The firm was the world's largest renewable energy firm: it was the worl ...

GE Wind 1.5 MW Series Wind Turbine
Energy infrastructure completed in 2007 Buildings and structures in Somerset County, Pennsylvania Wind farms in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-stub

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