Kent Hills Wind Farm is a

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 southeast from

Prosser Brook, New Brunswick Prosser Brook is a dispersed Canadian rural community located in the Elgin Parish of Albert County, New Brunswick. Located approximately 4 km southeast of Parkindale and Route 895, Prosser Brook is home to the Kent Hills Wind Farm, a ...

. The wind farm was completed in three phases between 2008 and 2018. The farm was the first in New Brunswick. It is owned and operated by TransAlta and the power is purchased by NB Power for supply to consumers. As of 2021, the farm consisted of forty-nine 3-

megawatt The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work ...

(MW)

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s and 5 3.45-MW turbines, for a total capacity of 167 MW. The project produces 580,000 megawatt hours per year. The turbines used are Vestas V90-3MW model, which have a rotor diameter of and sit atop an tower. In October 2021, a tower, in phase two of the project, collapsed because of a bad foundation. Initially all WTG were taken off line as a precaution. TransAlta Renewables have found deficiencies in the design of all of the windmill foundations. Costs to replace them are quoted to be 75-100 million dollars. It is the largest wind farm in Atlantic Canada.

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