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April 7: Southern Ontario was affected by winds gusting up to 110 km/h. Among the consequences were Power failures from Windsor to Belleville, 7 people being stranded in a lift at the Skylon Tower at the Niagara Falls when the lift cables were twisted in the wind and the wind combined with pack ice on the Welland Canal to block the canal stopping shipping traffic.
OPG 7 Gomberg Turbine. The OPG 7 Gomberg Turbine was a Vestas model V80-1.8MW wind turbine in Pickering, Ontario.At the time of its construction, it was one of the largest wind turbines in North America, a 117-metre high wind machine commissioned in 2001 and designed to produce enough power to satisfy about 600 average households.
Early development of wind energy in Canada was located primarily in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. Alberta built the first commercial wind farm in Canada in 1993. Throughout the late 1990s and early years of the 21st Century every Canadian province has pursued wind power to supplement their provincial energy grids.
In Canada, reference wind pressures are used in design and are based on the "mean hourly" wind speed having a probability of being exceeded per year of 1 in 50. The reference wind pressure q is calculated using the equation q = ρv 2 / 2, where ρ is the air density and v is the wind speed. [19]
Winnipeg has a reputation for being a windy city with the intersection of Portage and Main being called the windiest intersection in Canada; [36] however, Winnipeg is only the 12th windiest city in Canada, just below Hamilton, Ontario. [37] The average annual wind speed is 16.9 km/h (10.5 mph), predominantly from the south but the city has ...
Much of Northern Canada is covered by ice and permafrost; however, the future of the permafrost is uncertain because the Arctic has been warming at three times the global average as a result of climate change in Canada. [3] Canada's annual average temperature over land has warmed by 1.7 °C (3.1 °F), with changes ranging from 1.1 to 2.3 °C (2 ...
Ontario Harrow 264 1989-7 Quebec Barrage des Quinze 172 1932-8 New Brunswick Alma 179 1962-5 Nova Scotia HRM >250 2023-7 Prince Edward Island Charlottetown 164 1942-9 Newfoundland & Labrador Red Harbour 199 2005-3
Kingsbridge 1 Wind facility is located between Goderich and Kincardine, Ontario. The Kingsbridge 1 Wind facility is located on the southeast shore of Lake Huron in the township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh and consists of 22 1.8 MW Vestas V80 wind turbines with a capacity of 39.6 MW. [ 2 ]