Soma Wind Farm is an onshore
wind power plant in
Soma in
Manisa Province in the northwestern
Aegean Region
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Located in w ...
of
Turkey. Built in two phases and consisting of 119
wind turbines with an installed output power of 140
MW in total, it is one of
Turkey's largest wind farms.
The wind farm, distributed over a large mountainous terrain, extends over a land area of .
The wind farm was constructed and is operated by Polat Energy, a joint venture company of Polat Holding, which is owned by former
Galatasaray S.K.
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president
Adnan Polat, and the
French
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company
EDF Energies Nouvelles.
Technical details
Soma Wind Farm was built in two phases, called Soma-1 and Soma-2. Average total annual energy generated is 405
GWh
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. The cost of the project totalled to €170 million.
It was completed and commissioned in January 2012.
The first phase, consisting of 88 wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 79.2 MW manufactured by
Enercon, cost
€100 million, and was commissioned in December 2010. Each of the E-44 type turbines with rotor diameter at hub height generates 900
KW power. 50 of the wind turbines are atop of steel towers while the rest were installed on precast concrete towers.
In the second phase, 31 wind turbines were erected, one of E-44 type and 30 of E-70 type, which having a rotor diameter of at hub height generate each 2.3 MW. The second phase extended the wind farm's power capacity about 60.9 MW.
The area has extreme winter conditions that cause icing of the rotor blades. To prevent this, some turbines are equipped with
de-icing system
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.
Soma Wind Farm is Turkey's only wind power plant feeding electricity into grid at 380
kV.
References
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Soma District
Wind farms in Turkey
Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
2012 establishments in Turkey