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Links & Resources
As Canada’s leading source of credible information on wind energy, we’ve created a list of useful links and resources.
Canada's National Wind Resource Map
Canada has a national wind resource map accessible at www.windatlas.ca.
Current information shows that Canada has a significant wind energy resource. For example Northern Quebec (Nunavik) alone has enough wind resource to produce 40% of Canada's electricity needs. Besides wind resource, you also need to consider how much wind energy can be effectively integrated into our electricity grid and at what cost. Based on the experience of other countries, it is possible for Canada to achieve 20% of its electricity needs from wind energy; that would be 50,000 MW of wind energy capacity.
Ontario
Wind Resource Atlas
The Ontario Wind Resource Atlas allows users to view colour-coded maps of numerous wind statistics for any one-square-kilometre area in the province. This mapping tool illustrates Ontario's wind energy potential and will help identify promising sites for future wind energy development.
The Ontario Wind Resource Atlas data is available for purchase through The MNR Store in DVD format. Click
here for more information.
There are online wind atlases available for many other provinces
too – see the list compiled by WEICan at http://www.weican.ca/links/wind-assess.php
 Ontario Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy
Issued by: Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA)
Description: Over the past several years, wind developers have been prospecting for windy sites in southern Ontario, predominantly along the shores of the Great Lakes and along the Niagara highlands as possible locations for large wind farms. In many areas rural landowners, especially farmers, have received offers to lease their land from these wind power developers. It became apparent that a written guide for landowners considering wind power development would be a valuable tool
RETScreen™
International software is a FREE decision support tool
from the Canadian Government (Natural
Resources Canada) for evaluating the energy production, life-cycle costs and greenhouse gas emission reductions for renewable energy technologies. It is an easy-to-use tool and has become an international standard for pre-feasibility studies of renewable energy projects. RETScreen provides an estimate of a project’s technical and financial viability. RETScreen results should not be used as the basis for a final decision on a project, and CanWEA assumes no responsibility for the use of RETScreen results.
Title: ‘L’ÉOLIEN – au coeur de l’incontournable révolution énergétique’,
Authors : Bernard Saulnier et Réal Reid
ISBN 978-2-89544-145-8
Editors: Multimondes
432 pages – $39.95
The book takes technologists, engineers, professors, students, planners, operators, regulators, developers, and decision makers alike through a comprehensive tour of the complex world of electricity, and shows why and how wind energy fits in this unique market where physics and economics are intimately tied. Taking into account all the technical and economic aspects of wind power integration in the portfolio of electricity generating technologies, the authors demonstrate why wind energy has become the most competitive bulk electricity supply option today.
The book is available at:
http://www.multim.com/
multimondes@multim.com
www.jelis.ca
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