The EDP Sarichioi Wind Farm is a
wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly used to generate electricity. This article deals only with wind power for electricity ge ...
project in
Sarichioi,
Tulcea County
Tulcea County () is a county (judeČ›) of Romania, in the historical region Dobruja, with the capital city at Tulcea. It includes in its northeast corner the large and thinly-populated estuary of the Danube.
Demographics
In 2021, Tulcea Coun ...
,
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. It has 11
Vestas V90 wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
s
with a nominal output of around 3
MW which will deliver up to 33 MW of power, enough to power over 21,500 homes, with a capital investment required of approximately US$50 million.
References
Wind farms in Romania
2012 establishments in Romania
Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
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