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
Location of Elmira in Prince Edward Island
Coordinates: 46°26′20.1″N 62°3′57.9″W
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

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

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 will 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
  1. https://www.peimuseum.ca/visit/elmira-railway-museum/elmira-railway-museum-events-and-exhibits
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-22. Retrieved 2009-02-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/getrelease.php3?number=5111
  4. http://www.gov.pe.ca/envengfor/index.php3?number=1012553&lang=E


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