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Ice halts northern N.B. wind farm
Northern New Brunswick's cold, icy weather is causing wind turbines to freeze and stop producing power at the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst.
The new wind farm's 33 turbines have been generating power since November, but they have been forced to shut down for the past two days due to ice forming on some of the blades.
February 18, 2010
in CBC News
Northern New Brunswick's cold, icy weather is causing wind turbines to freeze and stop producing power at the Caribou Wind Park near Bathurst.
The new wind farm's 33 turbines have been generating power since November, but they have been forced to shut down for the past two days due to ice forming on some of the blades.
The wind farm has been battling ice problems all winter.
David Cousins, the Caribou Wind Park's site manager, said when ice starts forming on the turbines' blades, they can't operate.
"As soon as there is ice rain or rime ice, which is fairly common in this... [continue via Web link]
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