Hundhammerfjellet wind farm
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Hundhammerfjellet 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 in Nærøy
Nærøy
Nærøy is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. Nærøy is part of the Namdalen region. Norway's smallest town, Kolvereid, is the administration centre of the municipality...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It has 17 windmills with output between 1.66 and 3.5 MW
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...

, delivered from Norwegian manufacturer Scanwind
ScanWind
ScanWind was a Norwegian manufacturing company that produces wind turbines. In 2009 Scanwind was bought by General Electric, and formed the ground for GE Wind Energy as in Norway. The company has its head office in Trondheim and production facilities in Verdal, both Norway, as well as engineering...

 (14 turbines, one more has been decommissioned), Vestas
Vestas
Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines. It is the largest in the world, but due to very rapid growth of its competitors, its market share decreased from 28% in 2007 to 12.5% in 2009...

 (one V66) and Enercon
Enercon
Enercon GmbH, based in Aurich, Germany, is the fourth-largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world and has been the market leader in Germany since the mid-nineties. Enercon has production facilities in Germany , Sweden, Brazil, India, Canada, Turkey and Portugal...

 (one E-70 2.0 MW and one E-70 2.3 MW). The farm is owned by Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk
Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk
Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk or NTE is a power company serving Nord-Trøndelag in Norway and owned by Nord-Trøndelag county municipality. NTE is one of the largest producers of electricity in Norway, with an annual production of 3,995 GWh per year...

and has been completed in December 2009 with the installation of the ENERCON E-70 2.3 MW.
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