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Oakfield Location: Oakfield, Maine
Developer: First Wind
Project status: Permit approved by DEP January, 2010 - under appeal
NRCM position
: Did not take a position
Size: 51 MW
Number of turbines:
34 (1.5 MW turbines)
Generation: 135 million kilowatt hours of electric generation per year
Equivalent number of homes supplied per year: more than 20,000


This 34-turbine wind project, under review by the Department of Environmental Protection (and NRCM), is proposed for Aroostook County, just west of Houlton.

Estimated Emissions Avoided:

  • CO2 (tons/year): 56,000
  • NOx (tons/year): 58
  • SO2 (tons/year): 159

CO2 Equivalents**:

  • CO2 emissions from burning 265 railcars’ worth of coal
  • CO2 emissions from 118,145 barrels of oil consumed
  • Carbon sequestered annually by 11,546 acres of pine or fir forests
  • CO2 emissions from 5,766,441 gallons of gasoline consumed

** CO2 Equivalents were calculated using the EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator

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