Canada to break the wind "exponential" barrier.

[skids]

Looks like Canada's determined to make those exponential regression fits a bit difficult for all us stats crunchers...

Epcor's Kingsbridge I Wind Power Project recently reached a milestone when two completed turbines generated electricity to Ontario's electrical grid system for the first time. To date, six Kingsbridge I turbines are online and producing power.

Twenty-one of 22 turbines have now been erected in the 40 MW project.

Kingsbridge I will be followed by Kingsbridge II. In November 2005,

Kingsbridge I and II will be equivalent to 29 percent of existing Canadian wind power capacity. As of January 2006, Canada had a total installed wind power capacity of 683 MW.

http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44302

The energization of the Clean Power Income Fund's Erie Shores Wind Farm in southern Ontario was successfully accomplished on the afternoon of March 6, 2006, marking the initial stage of the commissioning process to begin electricity production and sales.

Clean Power began construction of the 99 MW wind power project in July 2005. To date, 27 of the project's GE SLE 1.5MW turbines have been erected -- 40 percent of the total of 66 wind turbines that will make up the Erie Shores Wind Farm. All equipment has been delivered and is stored on site, ready for the ongoing installations.

With the addition of the 99 MW Erie Shores Wind Farm now under construction, Clean Power Income Fund is invested in 44 power-generating facilities located in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia and 10 U.S. states with a total capacity of 450 MW.

http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44330

Westman Wind Power Company is developing eight wind power projects in Manitoba, with an initial capacity of approximately 700 MW and a potential maximum capacity of more than 1,400 MW. The total value of the projects is approximately $1.5 billion. Westman is developing the projects with technical support and assistance from Wardrop Engineering, one of the largest engineering firms based in Manitoba, and two other wind power developers, Padoma Wind Power and Gale Force Energy (GFE).

Five of Westman's projects are located on private land, with negotiations under way on land use agreements for more than 50,000 acres of land. Wind-monitoring programs have commenced on all of the sites and will continue for another year and a half. Westman has filed applications to use more than 20,000 acres of Crown Land for two further projects; negotiations are ongoing for the final project in the Churchill area.

http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44329

[davidinalameda]

1. can I make a breaking wind joke here

or will I get in trouble?

:shrug:

[skids]

2. Need you ask?

My sig should make that pretty clear :-)

[MADem]

3. I was thinking along the same lines.....

But I am a "fan" of windpower....!!!!