World Wind Watch | Green Energy News

October 3, 2004 – Vol.9 No.28

WORLD WIND WATCH.

With the stroke of a pen Hydro Quebec, of Canada, has announced the largest single award for new wind generation capacity in the history of the global wind energy industry - 990 megawatts of new capacity to be built in Quebec Province in the Gaspe region. All of the projects will be completed between 2006 and 2012.

The big winner, aside from Canada, and the world, is clearly GE Energy, which will supply all of the turbines - up to 660 - to be used in all of the projects. The company will supply 740 megawatts of wind turbine capacity to Cartier Wind Energy. Northland Power will receive 250 megawatts in wind turbine name plate output.

GE says that up to 60 percent of the wind energy components, materials and services will be supplied manufactured and assembled locally - a jobs benefit for Gaspe. Typically, for large wind projects, towers and blades are often built locally to cut down on shipping expenses of these oversized components.

The award was the result of a request for proposals issued by Hydro Quebec in 2003. Visit GE Energy at http://www.gewind.com/ .

In the U.K. more than 300 megawatts of new wind capacity have been approved, according to the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA).

--- Scarweather Sands, off the coast of Porthcawl in South Wales, 30 turbines up to 108 megawatts to be built by United Utilities and Energie2 of Denmark. http://www.unitedutilities.com/

--- Farr, south of Inverness, Highlands, Scotland, 45 turbines up to 112.5 megawatts to be built by npower renewables. http://www.npower.com/

--- Braes O'Doune, near Dunblane, Stirling, Scotland, 50 turbines up to 98 megawatts to built by Airtricity. http://www.airtricity.com/