Manitoba Hydro To Study Wind Farms

WINNIPEG -- - Manitoba Hydro has finalized a 320-thousand-dollar contract with a Quebec company to research possible sites for wind farms in the province.

Hydro president Bob Brennan says the contract, with Helimax Energie, is for a year-long study that will see 60-metre-high towers equipped with wind testing equipment erected on the sites.

He says if the study determines there is enough wind at one or more of the seven locations, the initial plan will be to build one or two wind farms.

In addition to wind speed, the locations are scouted for proximity to existing hydro grids to reduce the cost of building new power lines.

To be effective, wind turbines can only be erected in a region with average wind speeds over 22 kilometres an hour.

Related News

Energy Vault Lands $110M From SoftBank’s Vision Fund for Gravity Storage

BERN - Energy Vault Gravity Storage uses crane-stacked concrete blocks to deliver long-duration, grid-scale renewable energy; a SoftBank Vision Fund-backed, pumped-hydro analog enabling baseload power and a lithium-ion alternative with proprietary control algorithms.

 

Key Points

Gravity-based cranes stack blocks to store and dispatch power for hours, enabling grid-scale, low-cost storage.

✅ 4 MW/35 MWh modules; ~9-hour duration

✅ Estimated $200-$250/kWh; lower LCOE than lithium-ion

✅ Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund; Cemex and Tata support

 

Energy Vault, the Swiss-U.S. startup that says it can store and discharge electrical energy through a super-sized concrete-and-steel version of a child’s erector set,…

READ MORE
apartment lights

America’s Electricity is Safe From the Coronavirus—for Now

READ MORE

bruce power plant

Operating record for Bruce Power as Covid-19 support Council announced

READ MORE

power blackout

Study: US Power Grid Has More Blackouts Than ENTIRE Developed World

READ MORE

Washington County planning officials develop proposed recommendations for solar farms

READ MORE