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Twin Groves Wind Farm : ウィキペディア英語版 | Twin Groves Wind Farm
Twin Groves Wind Farm is a wind farm in the U.S. state of Illinois, near the villages of Arrowsmith, Saybrook, and Ellsworth in McLean County. It consists of 240 operating wind turbines. Each wind turbine stands 270 ft (65.23 m) tall and has three 85-foot-long (35.91 m) blades. The wind farm was constructed from 2007 to February 2008. Twin Groves was the largest utility-scale wind farm east of the Mississippi River upon completion.〔Later in 2008, the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm in neighboring Indiana surpassed Twin Groves with 400 MW of installed nameplate capacity.〕 ==Description== The Twin Groves Wind Farm lies in eastern McLean County just east of Bloomington on Illinois State Route 9. The wind farm consists of 240 Vestas 1.65 MW wind turbines and is owned and operated by Horizon Wind Energy.〔 Total cost of Twin Groves was approximately $700 million. The towers are spread out over of McLean County,〔 near the villages of Arrowsmith, Ellsworth, and Saybrook. The current total capacity at Twin Groves Wind Farm is 398 megawatts.〔 The site produces enough power to power about 120,000 homes, or approximately 1.3 billion kilowatt hours annually.
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