Dokie Ridge Wind Farm
Encyclopedia
The Dokie Ridge Wind Farm is a wind farm
located near Chetwynd, British Columbia
, Canada
(about 1,100 km northeast of Vancouver
. It is owned by GE Energy Financial Services
and was put into commercial operation in 2011. The facility will have a generating capacity of 144 megawatts and is expected to produce 320 to 340 gigawatt-hours of energy per year. .
Electrical engineering consulting services are provided by Lex Engineering Ltd. BC Hydro announced the project was in commercial operation as of February 16, 2011. The project was built in partnership between GE and Plutonic Power Corporation. The wind farm has 43 turbines, an electrical substation
and seven kilometers of transmission line. The project cost about $228 million (Canadian).
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
located near Chetwynd, British Columbia
Chetwynd, British Columbia
The District of Chetwynd is a town located on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town eastbound travellers encounter after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97 and acts as the gateway to the Peace...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
(about 1,100 km northeast of Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
. It is owned by GE Energy Financial Services
GE Energy Financial Services
As a division of General Electric , GE Energy Financial Services provides financial and technological investment in energy infrastructure projects around the world...
and was put into commercial operation in 2011. The facility will have a generating capacity of 144 megawatts and is expected to produce 320 to 340 gigawatt-hours of energy per year. .
Electrical engineering consulting services are provided by Lex Engineering Ltd. BC Hydro announced the project was in commercial operation as of February 16, 2011. The project was built in partnership between GE and Plutonic Power Corporation. The wind farm has 43 turbines, an electrical substation
Electrical substation
A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system. Substations transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several other important functions...
and seven kilometers of transmission line. The project cost about $228 million (Canadian).