Klondike Wind Farm


Klondike Wind farm is located in Sherman County, east of the small agricultural community of Wasco, in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in four phases and is owned and operated by Iberdrola.
The first phase was built in 2001 and the latest in 2008.
PhaseCapacity Typenumber of
turbines
Klondike I24Enron Wind16
Klondike II75GE Energy50
Klondike III120GE Energy80
101.2Siemens44
2.4Mitsubishi1
Klondike IIIa76.5GE Energy51
Total399.1242

The wind farm is currently a test site for some new wind turbines, notably the Mitsubishi MWT92, a 2.4 megawatt turbine with a rotor diameter larger than the wingspan of any production aircraft at 92 meters, manufactured in Japan. During the construction of the last phase, an accident killed one worker and injured another.