CBC News - Manitoba - Construction underway on wind farm
An official groundbreaking for a wind farm near St. Joseph, MB was held on Thursday. The project proponent, Pattern Energy of San Francisco, expects the first turbines to be in operation by the end of this year. Read the CBC News story at the link above.
My original post about this project is at: Deal Struck to Build $345 million wind farm.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Deal struck to build $345M wind farm
CBC News - Manitoba - Deal struck to build $345M wind farm
Construction on the 138-megawatt wind project — the second major one in the province — will begin immediately, Premier Greg Selinger announced Monday. The project's go-ahead was made possible because of a 27-year power purchase deal between Manitoba Hydro and San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group. Pattern will invest $95 million and Manitoba Hydro will loan the company up to $260 million to be repaid over 20 years.
Last September, The Winnipeg Free Press reported on the transfer of the project from Babcock & Brown, a failing Australian investment company, to a new entity called Pattern Energy: Wind farm out of breath. The paper provided the following information about the project's specifications at the time (note the significant difference in the proposed size of the project):
Read CBC's original November 2008 story about the project: Canada's largest wind farm to be set up in Southern Manitoba.
Construction on the 138-megawatt wind project — the second major one in the province — will begin immediately, Premier Greg Selinger announced Monday. The project's go-ahead was made possible because of a 27-year power purchase deal between Manitoba Hydro and San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group. Pattern will invest $95 million and Manitoba Hydro will loan the company up to $260 million to be repaid over 20 years.
Last September, The Winnipeg Free Press reported on the transfer of the project from Babcock & Brown, a failing Australian investment company, to a new entity called Pattern Energy: Wind farm out of breath. The paper provided the following information about the project's specifications at the time (note the significant difference in the proposed size of the project):
Canada's biggest wind farm?
Location: Southern Manitoba, between St. Joseph and Letellier
Size: 300 megawatts -- 100 megawatts more than the much-touted Wuskwatim dam
Cost: $800 million, at last count
Turbines: 130 turbines pumping 2.3 megawatts each
Scheduled completion date: 2011
Next biggest wind farm in Canada: Ontario's Wolfe Island farm, near Kingston. It's 197 megawatts
Challenger: Quebec, which has a 300-megawatt wind farm slated to open in 2012 or 2013
Read CBC's original November 2008 story about the project: Canada's largest wind farm to be set up in Southern Manitoba.
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