Elmira, Prince Edward Island

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

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

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 edit

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 edit

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 edit

  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.