Hitra Wind Farm is a 24-turbine

wind farm A wind farm, also called a wind park or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turbines covering an exten ...

located in

Hitra Municipality Hitra is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality covers the Hitra (island), island of Hitra and hundreds of smaller islands, islets, and Skerry, skerries as well as an ar ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...

county,

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and operated by

Statkraft Statkraft AS is a hydropower Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is ac ...

. The farm is located on top of the Elsfjellet plateau in the central part of the island of Hitra, just south of the village of Straum and about west of the village of

Sandstad Sandstad is a village in Hitra Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is located along the Trondheimsleia on the southeastern coast of the Hitra (island), island of Hitra, about southwest of the village of Hestvika. The north e ...

. Until the expansion of the

Smøla Wind Farm Smøla Wind Farm (''Smøla vindpark'') is a 68-turbine wind farm located in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The farm is located southeast of the village of Dyrnes on the island of Smøla. It is operated by Statkraft and ...

in 2005, Hitra was the largest wind farm in the country and had cost . Each of the 24

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 can produce of power for a maximum generated power of and an annual production of for the whole farm. The farm was opened on 14 October 2004. The

Fosen Vind Fosen Vind is a complex of six onshore wind farms in Fosen, Norway, commissioned in 2018-20. With a nameplate capacity of 1 Gigawatt, GW the project is Europe's second largest onshore wind farm (second to the Markbygden Wind Farm); it more th ...

wind farm complex will include the nearby Hitra 2 wind farm.

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Hitra Statkraft Wind farms in Norway 2004 establishments in Norway {{Norway-powerstation-stub

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