Elmira is a community in the Canadian

Canada

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 province of Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

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, located in Lot 47

Lot 47, Prince Edward Island

Lot 47 is a township in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is part of East Parish....

 of Kings County

Kings County, Prince Edward Island

Kings County is located in eastern Prince Edward Island, Canada.It is the province's smallest, most rural and least-populated county. Kings County is also least dependent upon the agriculture industry compared with the other two counties, while being more heavily dependent on the fishery and...

, northeast of Souris

Souris, Prince Edward Island

Souris is a Canadian port town in northeastern Kings County, Prince Edward Island. It is located in an area famous for its beaches and potatoes, containing the majority of Prince Edward Island's potato manufacturers.-History:...

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CBC Television

CBC Television

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's CBCT and CBC Radio One

CBC Radio One

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's CBCT-FM

CBCT-FM

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 maintain rebroadcasters at Elmira to serve the portion of eastern Prince Edward Island which lies outside the broadcast range of those stations' main transmitters in Charlottetown

Charlottetown

Charlottetown is a Canadian city. It is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...

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Eastern Kings wind farm

Is a wind farm

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 at Souris-Elmira, PEI, Canada. It was completed January 22, 2007. It is owned and operated by PEI Energy Corporation.

The wind farm consists of ten Vestas V90 wind turbine

Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used to produce electricity, the device may be called a wind generator or wind charger. If the mechanical energy is used to drive machinery, such as for grinding grain or...

s 3 MW. Annual production will be 90-95 million kilowatt hours. The average house uses about 8,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually so the wind farm will produce enough electricity to power about 12,000 homes.
The Eastern Kings Wind Farm will supply about 7.5% of PEI’s electricity and displace 75,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases per year. The project capital cost was approximately $47 million.