windsight_Feb07

Nova Scotia Power announced its plan to buy another 130 MW of renewable energy. INSIDE 6 Another RFP A very good year 3 Nouveau programme fédéral: retour de l’encouragement à la production See page 2 Voir page 16 WindSight Canada more than doubled its wind energy capacity during a record- shattering 2006. Vol. 20, No. 1, Feburary 2007 WindSight WindSight WindSight Canadian Wind Energy Association Wind Energy. Powering Canada’s future…naturally L’énergie éolienne - l’avenir énergétique naturel du Canada Association Canadienne de L ’Énergie Éolienne A new report recommends a bigger role for wind power in Saskatchewan. 9 New federal program restores production incentive for wind CanWEA is developing best-practice guidelines for sound. 11 Sound study OTTAWA – The Conservative government has announced a new renewable energy production incentive program that is expected to bring the wind power industry back to where it was before federal funding was frozen last spring. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his government’ s new EcoENERGY for Renewable Power (ERP) program at a news conference in Vict oria January 19. The program, to be implemented starting in April, will run for four years and target the installation of 4,000 MW of generating capacity from renewable energy sources that include wind, biomass, small hydro and ocean energy . It will provide a 1¢/kWh payment for the first 10 years of a project’s life at a cost of $1.48 billion over 14 years. While the overall target of ERP is lower than the plan laid out by the Liberals in their 2005 budget, which set aside funding for 3,000 MW of new wind capacity and 1,500 MW for other renewable energy technologies, the wind industry is not expected to lose any ground. A planned discussion paper outlining proposed terms and conditions of ERP was expected to recommend that of the program target, 3,000 MW be allocated to wind. CanWEA president Robert Hornung applauded the announcement, saying it ends the uncertainty the industry has faced since the Harper government froze Competitive option OTTAWA – Le gouvernement conservateur a annoncé un nouveau programme d’encouragement à la production d’énergie renouvelabl e qui devrait ramener l’industrie éolienne là où elle se trouvait avant le gel du financement fédéral le printemps dernier. Le premier ministre Stephen Harper a annoncé le nouveau programme du gouvernement, Initiativ e écoÉNERGIE sur les énergies renouvelables, lors d’une conférence de presse donnée à V ictoria le 19janvier . Le programme, qui sera mis en œuvre à compter du mois d’avril, fonctionnera pendant quatre ans et a comme

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