World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

March 28, 2004 – Vol.9 No.1

WORLD WIND WATCH.

Canadian Hydro Developers will team up with Canadian Renewable Energy Corporation to develop wind projects in Ontario. Under the agreement the companies will pursue a 300-megawatt project on Wolfe Island, near Kingston Ontario. The Wolfe Island Wind Project would be built in five 60-megawatt stages.

The project is already moving forward with land lease deals being put together, wind data being collected and grid interconnection being approved. Power from the project would be sold through as a result of an anticipated Request For Proposal (RFP) expected for 300 megawatts of renewable power from the Ontario government.

Canadian Hydro has also issued a letter of intent with Chinodin Enterprises to acquire the rights to Chinodin’s Melancthon/Grey Highlands Wind Project near Shelburne, Ontario.

That project, like the Wolfe Island project would be built in 60 megawatt stages. Visit Canadian Hydro Developers at http://www.canhydro.com/ .

Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, former U.S. Energy Secretary in the Clinton Administration, has announced that a wind energy company will set up shop in Santa Theresa. The governor, who is also on the list of possible running mates for presidential candidate John Kerry, said the facility would employ 450. The governor was not specific as to which company would locate there and what the operation would include but, given the size of the staff, it seems likely that turbines would be manufactured.

GE Wind Energy announce a number of new orders this week...

---Twenty-five 1.5 megawatt turbines - 37.5 megawatts - will go to a project to be spread out in the communities of Fauquembergues, Renty-Audincthun, Reclinghem and Vincly in northern France.

--- Five 1.5 megawatt turbines - 7.5 megawatts - will be for the Sortosville-Les Beaumont project located in the Cotentin area on the west coast of France.

--- Twenty 1.5 megawatt turbines - 30 megawatts - will be used at the Magrath Wind Power Project in Southern Alberta, Canada.

--- Twenty-six 1.5 megawatt turbines - 39 megawatts - will used for Taiwan’s first wind power project.