World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

February 24, 2002 – Vol.6 No.48

WORLD WIND WATCH.

If approvals are obtained, financing is arranged and technical feasibility studies agree, North America’s largest wind farm announced to date will be built off the west coast of Canada. The proposed 700 megawatt Nai Kun Wind Park, with up to 350 turbines, would be built west of the Queen Charlotte Islands in the province of British Columbia near the border of Alaska.

The joint project of ABB and Canadian raw materials company Uniterre Resources would generate up to 2 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year. The first of the 80 meter (262 foot) turbine towers would be sunk into the seabed in the spring of 2004. The entire project would be complete by 2007. Visit ABB at http://www.abb.com/ .

NEG-Micon has been chosen by Pacific Hydro Limited of Australia as the preferred supplier of turbines for wind farms such as their Portland Wind Energy Project. NEG-Micon could initially supply up to 120 turbines of 1.5 megawatts capacity, but up to 400 turbines could be supplied in the next five years. Visit NEG-Micon at http://www.neg-micon.com/ .

Just a little-out-of-the-norm Mass Megawatts Wind Power will be building three of its MATS 25 kilowatt wind generation systems in Iceland. According to the company, MATS, or Multi-Axis Turbosystems, are designed for high wind speeds. In 19 mile per hour wind the system can produce electricity at less than 2.4 cents per kilowatt hour, according to the company. In windy Iceland that figure could fall below 2 cents.

The company is also working with GE Plastics to research the possibility of manufacturing the small turbine blades from injection molded plastic. Currently the blades are made of metal. Visit Mass Megawatts at http://www.massmegawatts.com/ .