Canada’s Largest Wind Farm Goes Live

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Canada’s Largest Wind Farm Goes Live

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Located near Shelburne, Ontario (northwest of Toronto), the Melancthon EcoPower Centre has a capacity of 199.5 MW and has been under construction since 2005. It commenced initial commercial operations after the 67.5 MW first phase was completed in in 2006. The final phase, which brought the project to its current nation-leading capacity, began construction in 2007.

All the electricity from the project is being sold to the Ontario Power Authority under two 20-year contracts.

Canadian Hydro says that it expects the wind farm’s annual output to be about 545 GWh, or enough power for 70,000 homes.

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Re: Canada’s Largest Wind Farm Goes Live

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Good, we need more ways for clean energy. Google is looking to use ocean currents to power their servers. Heck, in the US there's a giant desert where we could toss a ton of solar cells to gather power.
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