Securing Our Future: The 10 Point Plan

WIND DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO DELIVER ENERGY INDEPENDENCE,
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Securing Our Future: The 10 Point Plan

1. Maximizing Energy Security, Independence and Price Stability for Islanders
2. Generating Revenue from Green Energy Exports
3. Demonstrating Community Support
4. Building a Collaborative Partnership Approach to Cable and Transmission Planning
5. Maximizing Economic Benefits
6. Promoting Sound Land-Use Planning
7. Assuring Compliance with Environmental Review Processes
8. Promoting Fair and Equitable Land Leases
9. Advancing a Consistent Taxation and Business Support Environment
10. Partnering with Proven Developers

Wind Power Development on Prince Edward Island - History

1980 - Atlantic Wind Test Site opens at North Cape. Now the Wind Energy Institute of Canada.
2001 - Prince Edward Island Energy Corporation builds Atlantic Canada’s first commercial wind farm at North Cape with 10.56 megawatts of capacity.
2003 - Vestas V-90 turbine installed at North Cape just south of wind farm. First North American prototype of V-90 delivers three megawatts of electricity.
2007 - Energy Corporation develops Eastern Kings Wind Farm.
2007 - Suez Energy develops two wind farms - nine megawatts at Norway and 20 megawatts at West Cape.
End of 2008 - Suez anticipates completion of 99 megawatt wind farm begun earlier in year, with nine megawatts for Summerside utility and 90 megawatts intended for export use.