page_title: Smøla
section_title: Energy
hierarchical_section_title: Smøla / Energy
caption_attribution_description: English: Dyrnesdalen golfbane, Smøla Norsk (bokmål)‎: Dyrnesdalen golfbane, Smøla
context_page_description: Smøla is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hopen, other villages include Dyrnes, Råket, and Veiholmen.
  The 272-square-kilometre municipality is the 272nd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Smøla is the 272nd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,150. The municipality's population density is 8.2 inhabitants per square kilometre and its population has increased by 0.3% over the previous 10-year period.
context_section_description: On 5 September 2002, Statkraft announced the opening of the Smøla Wind Farm, a 40-megawatt (54,000 hp) wind project comprising twenty 2-MW wind turbines by Norway's King Harald V. This corresponds to phase one of the wind project, which when completed will have a total installed capacity of more than 110 megawatts (150,000 hp). Phase two was opened in September 2005 and included forty-eight 2.3-MW wind turbines.  All in all, the wind energy production project consists of 68 windmills, making it among the largest wind projects in Europe.  With a total generating capacity of 150 megawatts (200,000 hp), the Smøla wind farm's 68 turbines account for more than half of the installed wind power capacity in Norway.  The total generating capacity is equivalent to 450 GWh of electricity per year, which corresponds to the average annual power consumption of 22,500 Norwegian households.
caption: View of some wind turbines
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