Wind Energy Is About to Change Everything (Here’s What’s Coming)
Wind turbines stretching 300 meters into the sky—taller than the Eiffel Tower—will soon harvest energy from powerful offshore winds that current technology cannot reach. These next-generation installations represent just one breakthrough transforming wind energy from a supplementary power source into the backbone of Ontario’s electrical grid within the next decade.
The limitations holding back today’s wind farms are giving way to innovations that sound like science fiction but are already moving from laboratories to real-world deployment. Floating turbines that can venture into deep waters, bladeless designs that …
Ontario’s South Kent Wind Farm
The South Kent Wind Farm is situated in Chatham-Kent. It has been operating since April 2014 with an installed capacity of 270MW. This onshore wind farm generates enough electricity to fuel around 100,000 houses in Ontario.
It began its construction in 2013 and started operating …
Energy Market Analysis of the Renewable Power Landscape of Canada in 2017
In 2016, Ontario generated 8.2 percent of its electricity from natural gas, the only essential fossil fuel source it tapped into. Most of the electric consumption of this Canadian province came from non-emitting sources during operation, which accounted for 91.7 percent. It generated 0.1 percent of its electricity from diesel and oil. Lastly, renewable sources supplied around 33.4 percent of its generated electricity.
Generation Trends
Canada has 19 Canadian nuclear power reactors or CANDU. Ontario used 18 of these CANDU reactors to generate 58.3 …
Wind Energy: The Advantages and Challenges
Wind energy is hailed as among the fastest-growing energy sources worldwide, which is why it’s been gaining a lot of attention lately. While it is still not perfect, research and studies are ongoing to surpass all its challenges.
The Advantages
Here are some of the advantages and benefits of wind power:
1. It creates jobs.
The Wind Vision Report …