August 3, 2006 RSS feed / Regional News

How useful are wind-energy plants?

Controversy continues to reign in Amaranth Township as energy suppliers eye the wind blowing across the flat lands as a potential source of electricity. More...

Wind generators stood the test of heat Tuesday

When the temperature soared to an all-time southern Ontario record Tuesday afternoon, the Melancthon I wind plant was generating as much as about 85 per cent of its nameplate capability of 67.5 megawatts, according to the Independent Electrical Suppl More...

Lawyers co-ordinate peer review of ESR

Lawyers from the Toronto law firm Thomson Rogers are co-ordinating peer reviews of the Environmental Screening Report for Phase 2 of the Melancthon wind-generating project, Amaranth CAO Sue Stone says. More...

CORRECTION

The "Trillium" referred to in wind energy stories out of Amaranth is not the Trillium Power Energy Corp. named here last week, but a smaller company, Trillium Renewables Inc. More...