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. Trillium Renewables, not Trillium Power, appears to have an interest in a small wind plant in Amaranth. The two companies are not in any way related.

John Kourtoff, Trillium Power's CEO, says his company has no interest in establishing a small wind plant in Amaranth. His company has plans for a major offshore plant in Lake Ontario. He says he has had calls from Amaranth councillors and others who had also mistaken his company for the one associated with Fred Clark.

The confusion of names "has created grief for me," he said.

Fred Clark is a former consultant with a California wind-power company. He said in a phone interview that his family has hydroelectric generators at Fenelon Falls and elsewhere. He is one of several who made submissions to the Ontario Energy Board and Ontario Power Authority with respect to the Standard Offer Program, under which the province is encouraging creation of small (up to 10 megawatts) "green" or alternative energy systems, including wind, solar and biomass, for immersion in the local distribution systems. Trillium Renewables does not have wind turbines in Ontario.