A green-energy boost for British Columbia. BC Hydro’s grid started receiving wind-generated electricity today from the new wind park at Bear Mountain, the location of a popular golf resort near Dawson Creek in northeast B.C. The $200 million project will provide enough electricity to power approximately 31,000 homes annually later this year.
Most of the towers have been erected with four of the 34 state-of-the-art, German-made wind turbine generators installed. The project is owned and operated by AltaGas Income Trust, a Calgary-based energy infrastructure organization.
Wind-generated power is considered to be one of the fastest growing segments of the energy sector.
Although the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has regarded Canada as having the world’s second-largest wind-energy potential, the Global Wind Energy Council Canada (CanWEA) ranks Canada as 11th worldwide for installed wind power capacity. Moreover, B.C. has long focused on hydroelectricity and is the last major province to add wind power to its electricity grid
Although B.C. has a ways to go to catch up to other Canadian provinces, it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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“Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has regarded Canada as having the world’s second-largest wind-energy potential,”
Same old song and dance. Canada has the potential to do great things but lacks the Government backing to do it. Case in point the nuclear debacle going on right now with CANDU and the AECL.
http://www.pickcandu.ca
An article by Pierre Sadik of the David Suzuki Foundation, can shed some light (though it’s not surprising):
“Assertions that Government Can’t Pick Technology Winners are mostly Meaningless”
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blog/DSF1_08100901.asp