As a means of pumping water and generating electricity in remote locations, wind power has a history in Canada dating back many decades, particularly on prairie farms. At the end of 2011, wind power generating capacity was 5,265 megawatts (MW), providing some 2.3% of Canada's electricity demand. The Canadian Wind Energy Association has outlined a future strategy for wind energy that would reach a capacity of 55,000 MW by 2025, meeting 20% of the country's energy needs.
Alberta built the first commercial wind farm in Canada in 1993. British Columbia was the last province to add wind power to its grid with the completion of the Bear Mountain Wind Park in November 2009. With increasing population growth, Canada has seen wind power as a way to diversify energy supplies away from traditional reliance on fossil fuel burning thermal plants and heavy reliance on hydroelectricity in some provinces. In provinces like Nova Scotia, where only 12% of electricity comes from renewable sources, the development of wind energy projects will provide a measure of electricity security that some jurisdictions are lacking. In the case of British Columbia, wind energy will help close the electricity deficit that the province is facing into the 2010s and help reduce the reliance on importing power from other jurisdictions that may not use renewable energy sources. An additional 2,004 megawatts of wind power is to come on stream in Quebec between 2011 and 2015. The new energy will cost 10.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, a price described as "highly competitive"
wind energy is used in all parts of Canada
Wind energy can be used to power many things. Wind energy is produced by wind turbines that work opposite of fans.
A wind turbine is used to convert the wind into energy.
A wind turbine is used to convert the wind into energy.
wind energy is mostly used in texas
one example of wind energy are wind mills.
Wind is a renewable resource on earth. Wind turbines can be used to catch the wind's energy and be used to create electricity.
wind power energy may be used by using it to brush your teeth because it helps the energy of the water create wind from the water/wind power energy.
Wind energy is used like regular coal energy with a slight difference as wind energy is renewable.
Wind turbines (in a wind farm) convert kinetic energy of the wind into electrical energy. Not to be confused with wind mills - that turn the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy.
The ELECTRICITY that genarates CANADA are wind energy,nuclear energy and hydroelectricity energy.
Wind energy is used for electricty, wind turbine, windmills, and a wind machine