Tories announce $1.5-billion renewable energy plan. Which would have been nice if it hadn’t just been the old Liberal WPPI program (which the Tories cancelled) renamed, and claimed as a whole new thing. And there was highly qualified rejoicing.
Archive for the ‘Wind Things’ Category
this is me with my excited face on. Oh wait, no it’s not.
Friday, January 19th, 2007Unfair stood the wind for England
Friday, January 19th, 2007Given that the UK had some horrible wind storms this week, I wonder how the wind farms stood up?
What Is The Wind Power - and why are they using my pictures?
Thursday, January 18th, 2007What are my pictures doing here: http://www.thewindpower.net/103-windfarms-canada.php?
tonight’s talk
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006view
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Hey, I can see the WindShare wind turbine from my office window. It’s not running…
Wind Blog » Men’s Breakfast
Monday, November 13th, 2006Glen Estill tells it as it is about wind energy: Men’s Breakfast
see, I told you ages ago
Sunday, November 12th, 2006Trendy roof turbines are not as green as they look says The Observer. <smugness/>
Paul Gipe has some thoughts on this:
- Rooftop Turbines: Rooftop Mounting and Building Integration of Wind Turbines
- Roof Top Over the Top in Britain
- Roof Top Windsave in Scotland
The last one has a couple of pictures I took when we were in Scotland.
WindShare: new site, stopped turbine
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Windshare has a new website, which is nice. Unfortunately, the headline image shows a stopped turbine:
It’s kind of apt, given that the turbine’s been out of service for about a month. I liked the old days, when the turbine worked but the website was kinda crappy.
you go, Glen!
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Congratulations are due to Glen Estill, who got his two Vestas V82s on the Bruce Peninsula running today. Glen is a pioneer of wind energy in Ontario, and we’re all grateful to him for his tireless work for the industry.
Update: further to my wind turbines from space obsession, I found Glen’s original V80 turbine at 44° 56′ 46.42″ N, 81° 15′ 47.12″ W.
a good conference
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Well, that’s CanWEA done another year. I think a good time was had by all.
Welcome to The ‘Peg
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Just arrived in Winnipeg for the CanWEA conference. It looks an interesting town, but I’ll be stuck inside, sadly.
it’s official
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006I’m standing for election to the CanWEA Board of Directors.
oheeay
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006I’m at the OEA conference. The energy industry is a strange little ecosystem.
Nice view of the falls, though.
Windmills
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Windmills is a very simple Flash game involving wind turbines.
small power company
Thursday, July 13th, 2006Bullfrog Power are so small, the bills come with stamps on the the envelopes. I like that.
scissors, shears, geddit?!
Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
The presenter of this paper claimed that PowerPoint changed α, the wind shear coefficient, to ✂. We laughed, briefly.
gone with the wind
Sunday, June 11th, 2006I see that Americas Wind Energy updated their website to replace the site I wrote for them a couple of years back. It’s purty, but:
- The page URL sometimes inexplicably switches to d3095932.ejt86.ejtechinternational.com from awe-wind.com.
- The product page for the AWE 52-750 shows a bunch of non-operational turbines.
- The AWE 52-900 page also has a picture of a parked turbine, and it looks a lot like Tallon Energy’s 52-750 at Pincher Creek.
- More parked turbines on the 54-900 page, and occasionally a completely different machine is shown.
Oh wait, I get it - it’s a random turbine image for each page. Hmm.
RE Imaginations - Renewable Energy Art
Thursday, June 8th, 2006I was about to rush off and tell Emma Jane about RE Imaginations - Renewable Energy Art, when I discovered she exhibits on it already.
(They had a nifty display at AWEA, and I just bought an Aleksandar Rodic print.)
Rum Do At WindShare
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006WindShare’s having a special general meeting tonight to discuss the following resolution:
Moved that the Board of WindShare recommends to the WindShare I membership at their general meeting of June 7, 2006, the merger of WindShare I and WindShare II for the purpose of entering into the activities necessary for the development of the proposed Lakewind Proposal.
This is quite an important step, and since I’m still in Pittsburgh, I’d hoped to vote by proxy. I was informed by the WindShare administrator that this wasn’t possible; the Cooperative Corporations Act does not allow proxy voting.
I’m annoyed by this, as it looks like WindShare is going to merge its capital with a 10MW project being built on a site with a 6.5 m/s mean wind speed. I wouldn’t develop a project on a site with this low a wind speed, so I asked the following of the board:
Can you clarify, please, that the vote can only be carried if a majority of WindShare members are present at the meeting? It would be grossly unfair if an important vote like this one was carried by a minority.
I would also like to have questions brought to the board, and if possible, the meeting itself. The LakeWind information package states that Bervie has “an average wind speed of 6.5m/s … making this an excellent site for Ontario”. I would not consider a site having this wind resource to be excellent, and it would certainly not be one that would attract a commercial developer. So my questions are:
- Is it in the membership’s best interests to develop a relatively low wind site? WindShare made their political point with the ExPlace turbine, and now we must show that community wind is economically viable.
- Would either of the potential sites be forced to curtail output when/if the extra Bruce units come online? While LakeWind would be connecting to local distribution, any generation in that area might be subject to queueing limitations.
So far, I’ve heard nothing, which makes me uneasy.
it’s over ….
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006AWEA 2006, that is. Best swag was probably the places that had USB keys; yeah, they’re only 64MB, but these are big enough for tiny Linuxes or restore tools.
Freebies aside, it was a great show, and I guess a few hundred thousand business cards changed hands.
