AIM PowerGen Corp. has announced the commissioning of the Frogmore and Cultus wind farms.
TORONTO
AIM PowerGen Corp. has announced the commissioning of the Frogmore and Cultus wind farms.
The projects, developed under Ontario’s Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program, each have a total installed capacity of 9.9 megawatts (MW) and will produce enough power to supply 3,000 average households for one year.
Mike Crawley, CEO of AIM PowerGen, says these projects are among the first to be built under Ontario’s Standard Offer Program.
“We are pleased that Frogmore and Cultus wind farms are now on-line and providing clean, renewable energy to the province,” says Crawley. “The Standard Offer program was a ground-breaking initiative for the province and has allowed smaller projects such as these to be competitive and developed to support Ontario’s evolving energy system.”
The wind farms, located in Norfolk County on the northern shore of Lake Erie, are each comprised of six Vestas V82 1.65 MW turbines. Six landowners are hosting the 12 turbines on their properties.
“Many of these turbines are hosted by landowners that we approached over six years ago. These people embraced Ontario’s energy revolution very early on and acted as pioneers in making this a reality”, says Jim Wilgar, project manager and site consultant on the projects.
These are the first of four projects that AIM expects to commission in Ontario this summer. The Clear Creek Wind Farm, also in Norfolk County and the Mohawk Point Wind Farm, in Haldimand County, are expected to come on-line later this year. Construction on these wind farms is complete and AIM is finalizing interconnection issues with the local distribution company prior to commercial operation.
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