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On Global Wind Day, the operation produced enough power to power Tillsonburg
St. Thomas Times-Journal - Jun 19, 2010, Page:9
QMI AGENCY
As the Canadian Wind Energy Association celebrated Global Wind Day on Tuesday with a tour of the Erie Shores Wind Farm, it was especially rewarding for one tour member.
Jim Wilgar, project developer with International Power Canada, was the guy on the ground' going door-to-door visiting farmers and explaining the concept of the wind farm in 2002. Just a few months before that, the concept of Erie Shores Wind Farm was born when his son Jay explained his vision over a bowl of cereal.
Wind called crucial to replacing coal in Ontario
June 16th, 2010 By Norman De Bono, London Free Press
PORT BURWELL — Ken Wall stands beneath the 80-metre-tall wind turbine, the shadow of the churning blades passing over him on a sunny afternoon. He speaks of the gleaming white giants like another crop on his farm. He has seven turbines on his 1,200 acre farm, Sandy Point Shores, and mentions them with the same regard as his asparagus, cherries cucumbers and cauliflowers.
Tied to the wind: How a region in Quebec is making wind energy pay
May 30, 2010 By Scott Thistle
One of more than 730 paper mill workers who lost their jobs when two mills shut down in a single day, Labrie landed on his feet in Quebec's rapidly expanding wind-energy industry.
Windpower Engineering’s – 2010 Influencers of Wind Power
April 9, 2010 by WindPower Engineering
These Innovators and Influencers have had such a significant impact on the wind industry that the staff of Windpower Engineering would like to celebrate their success in this first annual Innovators and Influencers of Wind Power special section.
Being green brings in the green
By W. BRICE MCVICAR, THE INTELLIGENCER
Prince Edward County will reap the benefits of a flurry of green energy announcements made by the province. Six renewable energy projects will be coming to Prince Edward County after the Ontario government's announcement that it is investing in 184 such projects across the province.
Canada breezes into world’s top 10 for new turbines
RICHARD BLACKWELL
The Globe and Mail
Published on Thursday, Feb. 04, 2010
Canada expanded its wind power production last year at a record pace, putting it among the top 10 countries that built new turbines in 2009.
Data unveiled yesterday by the Global Wind Energy Council showed that Canada’s 950 megawatts of new wind turbines that were hooked up last year to the electrical grid placed it ninth overall among wind power producing nations. Read full article here.
Wind Power in Ontario Generates a New Record in 2009
TORONTO, Jan. 8 /CNW/ – Wind generation in Ontario rose by more than 60 per cent over the previous year, Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) reported today in its analysis of 2009 data. Wind output from Ontario’s commercial wind farms was 2.3 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2009, equivalent to the consumption of the City of Oshawa for two full years. At the same time, output from Ontario’s coal-fired plants dropped to 9.8 TWh, down dramatically from 23.2 TWh in 2008, and the lowest output in 45 years.
“Ontario’s supply mix is evolving,” said Paul Murphy, President and CEO of the IESO. “We are making considerable progress in our efforts to integrate energy from cleaner fuel sources.”
Demand for electricity in Ontario declined in 2009 as a result of the economic recession, conservation efforts and mild weather. Down 6.1 per cent over 2008, demand reached just 139 TWh, its lowest level since 1997. Peak hourly demand rose slightly in 2009 to 24,380 MW, up 185 MW from 2008 but well off the all-time peak demand of 27,005 MW set in 2006.
Although overall output was down across all fuel types, nuclear and hydroelectric production remained fairly stable. Nuclear generation produced 82.5 TWh of energy in 2009, down 1.9 TWh from 2008, while hydroelectric generation produced 38.1 TWh, a drop of 0.2 TWh from the previous year.
As percentages of total output in 2009, nuclear generation represented 55.2 per cent, hydroelectric generation totalled 25.5 per cent, natural gas came in at 10.3 per cent, coal-fired generation was just 6.6 per cent, wind reached 1.6 per cent, and other fuel types (biomass, solar etc.) contributed 0.8 per cent.
The cost of electricity produced in 2009 was 6.22 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) which includes the average weighted wholesale market price of 3.16 cents/kWh and the average Global Adjustment of 3.06 cents/kWh. In 2008, by comparison, the cost of electricity was 5.8 cents/kWh, which represents a market price of 5.2 cents/kWh and a Global Adjustment of 0.6 cents/kWh.
Ontario’s electricity imports dropped to 4.8 TWh while exports declined to 15.1 TWh.
The IESO is responsible for managing Ontario’s bulk electricity power system and operating the wholesale market. For more information, please visit www.ieso.ca.
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For further information: Alexandra Campbell, (416) 506-2806, alexandra.campbell@ieso.ca |
