Kent Hills Wind Farm is a large 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...

 project near Moncton, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

 which was completed on December 31, 2008. The farm is the first in New Brunswick. It is owned and operated by TransAlta

TransAlta

TransAlta Corporation is a power generation and wholesale marketing company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.TransAlta maintains a low-to-moderate risk profile by operating a highly contracted portfolio of assets in Canada, the United States and Australia...

 and the power is purchased by NB Power

NB Power

NB Power , formerly known as New Brunswick Power Corporation and New Brunswick Electric Power Commission is the primary and former monopoly electrical utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick...

 for supply to consumers.

The farm consists of thirty-two 3 megawatt (MW) 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 for a total capacity of 96 MW. The project produces 280,000 megawatt hours per year, enough power for 17,000 homes. The turbines used are Vestas V90-3MW

Vestas V90-3MW

The Vestas V90-3MW is a three bladed upwind wind turbine generator that uses pitch control and a doubly fed induction generator...

model, which have a rotor diameter of 90 metres (295 ft) and sit atop an 80 metres (262 ft) tower.

There are plans to expand the wind farm by an extra 18 turbines at an undetermined date in the future.