The Armenia Mountain Wind Energy Project spans two counties; Tioga and Bradford. Armenia Mountain is a small mountain summit rising 2,408 feet in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Armenian mountains which also cross over into very western edge of Bradford County. These two counties border the state of New York to the north.
RES Americas was the contractor who installed 67 General Electric turbines at the Armenia Mountain Wind Energy Project for the owner Armenia Mountain Wind, LLC. Each turbine has the ability to generate a maximum of 1.5 megawatts of energy. RES Americas is a company that has built approximately 10 percent of the existing wind energy projects in the United States as of 2011.
The contractor lists the capacity of the project to be 101 megawatts while Penn Future shows a farm capacity of 101.5. Those numbers represent the maximum amount of electricity the 67 turbines could produce under ideal wind conditions. Because wind farms rely upon a changing element, wind speed, the exact amount of electricity generated varies daily.
Armenia Mountain has the potential to produce 264.114 megawatt-hours of electricity. According to Penn Future the actual production by turbines at a wind farm average 70 percent of the production potential.
