Elmira, Prince Edward Island

Elmira
Elmira Railway Museum
Elmira Railway Museum
Elmira is located in Prince Edward Island
Elmira
Elmira
Location of Elmira in Prince Edward Island
Coordinates: 46°26′20.1″N 62°3′57.9″W / 46.438917°N 62.066083°W / 46.438917; -62.066083 (Elmira, Prince Edward Island)
CountryCanada
ProvincePrince Edward Island
CountyKings County

Elmira is a community in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, located in Lot 47 of Kings County, northeast of Souris.

CBC Television's CBCT and CBC Radio One's CBCT-FM 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.

Elmira Railway Museum

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Opened in the former Prince Edward Island Railway station in 1975, it no longer has any rolling stock displayed by mid 2000s but acquired CN caboose 78431 in 2009.[1]

Eastern Kings wind farm

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Eastern Kings is a wind farm located at Souris-Elmira, PEI, Canada. It was completed on January 22, 2007, and it is owned and operated by PEI Energy Corporation.[2]

The wind farm consists of ten Vestas V90 wind turbines 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.[3] The Eastern Kings Wind Farm was projected to 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.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Elmira Railway Museum Events and Exhibits". PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation.
  2. ^ "Eastern Kings Wind Farm Begins Operation". Zackin Publications, Inc. January 31, 2007. Archived from the original on March 22, 2007.
  3. ^ "Eastern Kings Wind Farm Comes In Under Budget". Government of Prince Edward Island. March 26, 2007. Archived from the original on June 10, 2011.
  4. ^ "Eastern Kings Wind Farm Project". PEI Environment, Energy and Forestry. Archived from the original on July 21, 2006.