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Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm
The twelve turbines of the wind farm.
Country
Location
Coordinates6°50′36″N 80°48′47″E / 6.8433°N 80.8131°E / 6.8433; 80.8131
StatusOperational
Commission date
  • February 2012
Owner
Operator
  • Ace Wind Power
Wind farm
Type
Power generation
Units operational12 × 0.25 MW
Make and modelUnknown (12)
Nameplate capacity
  • 3 MW
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The Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm is a small wind farm in Ambewela, owned and operated by Ace Wind Power, a subsidiary of Aitken Spence. As of October 2012, it is one of the only few operating multi-megawatt wind farms in Sri Lanka. The wind farm consists of 12 wind turbines of 250 KW each, totalling the plant installed capacity to 3 megawatts. The wind turbines are of type HSW 250T, originally built 1992.

Ten of the 12 wind turbines at Ambewela.
Winder power system in Ambewela, Nuwara Eliya
Ambewela wind farm and cows from Ambewela dairy farm.

See also

References

  1. "Blue chips eye more hydro, wind power plants". DailyNews.lk. 8 June 2011. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
  2. "Aitken Spence PBT Grows by 25% in First Quarter". 4 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-04-03. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
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