The Lakewind Project
With the Ontario Power Authority's Feed-In Tariff (FIT) program now in place as the most generous renewable energy support program in North America, TREC is moving ahead with ambitious generation development plans.
Building on the experience from the WindShare co-operative's Exhibition Place wind turbine project, TREC has submitted a FIT contract application for a 20-megawatt (MW) wind farm project called Lakewind.
TREC has incorporated Lakewind Power Co-operative Inc., a for-profit co-operative of Ontarians that will develop and own the project near the village of Bervie, just east of Kincardine, Ontario.
The Lakewind project will be the largest co-operatively owned, wind power project in Canada and pending a successful FIT application, is expected to be generating power in the spring of 2012.
Specifications:
- The project will consist of 10, 2 MW wind turbines standing 108 metres or 35 storeys high
- Each of their three blades measure 41 metres in length
Benefits:
- The Lakewind project will generate an average of 50,000 megawatt hours of power per year, equivalent to the electricity needs of over 13,000 homes;
- The turbine will help displace some of the harmful chemicals that are responsible for smog and acid rain and will displace up to 14,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide annually.
