For a minute there I thought I had to get off my couch, when all the while the fact is we don't have to do anything much but keep things afloat for just a few decades more! In fact, we'd best shut up about PO, because if our offspring finds out we knew about it all along, they'll turn and wring our necks come 2036!
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:08 pm Post subject: Hydro Quebec plans $5 billion in wind power
This is a very ambitious plan for a utility with a customer base of 7 million. Actually a much greater investment per capita than the massive program now underway in Britain
" Quebec, long a world leader in the generation of hydroelectric power, is now set to become one of the continent's biggest wind power developers.
Premier Jean Charest yesterday approved 15 bids for $5.5-billion in projects that would provide 2,004 megawatts by 2015, calling the development “the largest tender for wind-powered energy ever awarded in a single block in North America.” The wind projects would provide enough power to heat and light 320,000 Quebec homes.
Quebec's electricity exports have increased to 10.7 terawatt-hours this year from 6.7 terawatt-hours in 2005, generating an extra $1.1-billion in revenue.
The province aims to reduce overall energy consumption by 5.7 per cent by 2015, including cutting back on natural gas by 6.2 per cent and oil consumption by 10 per cent over the same period"
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