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porsena on October 20, 2006 - 11:34am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Trend to consolidation of Canada's wind power businesses

Wind power generation, by province (megawatts)
PROVINCE    INSTALLED    PROPOSED
British Columbia      0              325
Alberta                   285              235
Saskatchewan         171               25
Manitoba               104                0
Ontario                    221            1,059
Quebec                    212            1,244
New Brunswick             0               20
Nova Scotia               41               61
Prince Edward Island     14               39
Newfoundland              1                0
Yukon                          1                0
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porsena on October 20, 2006 - 11:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
And from the same article:
Canada's installed wind power capacity (megawatts)
2000    137
2001    198
2002    236
2003    322
2004    444
2005    683
2006*    1,049

*to June 30

SOURCE: CDN. WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION

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toilforoil on October 20, 2006 - 5:23pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Nice trend, but what is the energy generated?
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porsena on October 20, 2006 - 7:01pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Still pretty insignificant in the overall picture.  Canada's gross electric power generation in 2002 was around 500,000 GWh. For one wind generating station in Alberta, the capacity factor is around 32%, which would be pretty much at the high end of the range. Scaling that up suggests that the total generation from the 1049 MW installed base is probably less than 3,000 GWh
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