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Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm

wind farm in Ambewela, Sri Lanka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4741385 ↗
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The Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm is a small wind farm in Ambewela, owned and operated by Ace Wind Power, a subsidiary of Aitken Spence. As of October 2012, it is one of the only few operating multi-megawatt wind farms in Sri Lanka. The wind farm consists of 12 wind turbines of 250 KW each, totalling the plant installed capacity to 3 megawatts. The wind turbines are of type HSW 250T, originally built 1992.

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The public source identifies “Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm” as wind farm in Ambewela, Sri Lanka. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ambewela, Aitken and Spence.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ambewela Aitken Spence Wind Farm” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.