Let’s talk about the Wind

January 7, 2008

The following audio was recorded last spring at the

Glen Estill, the President and CEO of Sky Generation began researching the wind business in July 2000, by attending the conferences of the Canadian and American Wind Energy Associations (CanWEA and AWEA), and by traveling to Denmark to talk to wind turbine owners and manufacturers. Sky Generation erected a 1.8 MW wind turbine on the Bruce Peninsula in November of 2002 and has since added two additional turbines.

If you are interested in keeping up with happenings in Wind power generation, both locally and beyond, you should check out Glen’s Wind Blog.

From a recent entry…

This wasn’t the windiest December in Ferndale, but it was respectable. The wind farm produced 1,478,000 kWh, a 39% capacity factor. This was the second highest capacity factor in the province for the month, trailing Kingsbridge’s outstanding 47%, but ahead of third place Prince, at 34.6%, 4th place Port Burwell at 34.5%, and 5th place Amaranth at 32.2%. The new Ripley wind farm came in at 28.4%, which is very respectable, considering they were still completing some of the turbines, and it was a start up month.

Here’s the audio…

Glen Estill talks about wind energy (right click, save as to download)

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One Response to “Let’s talk about the Wind”

Nathan Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Not a bad lecture. I should know, as I edited the audio myself. Great post.

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