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BC wind-power update: Vancouver Sun
May 30, 2010
Vancouver Sun
Scott Simpson
May 29, 2010
There is a motherlode of wind energy resources in northeastern British Columbia, and developers are standing by.
Now, this largely unknown and untapped reservoir needs buyers, if the provincial government hopes to come close to its goal to make B.C. a renewable energy powerhouse in North America. It’s an ambitious—even distant—goal.
B. C.’ s hydro-focused electricity sector lags Europe, North America and the rest of Canada for wind power development despite opportunities that developers believe would make B.C. home to some of the world’s largest wind farms.
The Global Wind Energy Council says in its most recent status report that the global wind market grew by 41 per cent last year despite a global economic downturn. For the past three years wind has been the fastest growing power technology in Europe.
“Last year in the United States, wind was the largest single source of new electricity capacity,” Robert Hornung, president of the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said in a telephone interview. “ It had been second to natural gas for three years and last year was the first year it caught up.”
