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Oldest wind farm Canada for scrapyard after 23 yrs
Jun 14^th, 2017 at 1:25pm

The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 years of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity — and its owner says building a replacement depends on the next moves of the provincial NDP government.

TransAlta Corp. said Tuesday the blades on 57 turbines at its Cowley Ridge facility near Pincher Creek have already been halted and the towers are to be toppled and recycled for scrap metal this spring. The company inherited the now-obsolete facility, built between 1993 and 1994, as part of its $1.6-billion hostile takeover of Calgary-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. in 2009.

“TransAlta is very interested in repowering this site. Unfortunately, right now, it’s not economically feasible,” Wayne Oliver, operations supervisor for TransAlta’s wind operations in Pincher Creek and Fort Macleod, said in an interview.

“We’re anxiously waiting to see what incentives might come from our new government. . . . Alberta is an open market and the wholesale price when it’s windy is quite low, so there’s just not the return on investment in today’s situation. So, if there is an incentive, we’d jump all over that.”

http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/oldest-commercial-wind-farm-in-canada-h...

I guess it is a subsidy they are looking for. Wink

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 78311 Gender:	Re: Oldest wind farm Canada for scrapyard after 23 yrs Reply #1 - Jun 14^th, 2017 at 1:37pm Some friends in Canada have told me they suffer from the same problem we do ... a lack of firm direction from the govt. Until they govt. stops playing politics over the issue and grows a set of balls, energy companies aren't going to invest
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Re: Oldest wind farm Canada for scrapyard after 23 yrs
Reply #2 - Jul 4^th, 2017 at 7:38pm

lee wrote on Jun 14^th, 2017 at 1:25pm:

The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 years of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity — and its owner says building a replacement depends on the next moves of the provincial NDP government.

TransAlta Corp. said Tuesday the blades on 57 turbines at its Cowley Ridge facility near Pincher Creek have already been halted and the towers are to be toppled and recycled for scrap metal this spring. The company inherited the now-obsolete facility, built between 1993 and 1994, as part of its $1.6-billion hostile takeover of Calgary-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. in 2009.

“TransAlta is very interested in repowering this site. Unfortunately, right now, it’s not economically feasible,” Wayne Oliver, operations supervisor for TransAlta’s wind operations in Pincher Creek and Fort Macleod, said in an interview.

“We’re anxiously waiting to see what incentives might come from our new government. . . . Alberta is an open market and the wholesale price when it’s windy is quite low, so there’s just not the return on investment in today’s situation. So, if there is an incentive, we’d jump all over that.”

http://calgaryherald.com/business/energy/oldest-commercial-wind-farm-in-canada-h...

I guess it is a subsidy they are looking for. Wink

Lee doesn't know how economies work Wink

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