Sheerness#1 went offline at 17:58 yesterday…Vancouver based Sea Breeze Power Corp. has signed an agreement to build its Knob Hill Wind Farm on northern Vancouver Island. The company has partnered with Toronto-based electricity generator International Power Canada Inc. to build the first phase of the project, which would generate up to 99MW. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Sea Breeze did say International Power would become the majority owner of the project. Knob Hill is located 35 kilometres northwest of Port Hardy. BC Hydro granted the project a 20-year electricity purchase agreement in March. Sea Breeze received its provincial environmental assessment certificate in 2004, but had been toiling away on the project for nearly a decade. The company said Knob Hill received strong support from local communities on Vancouver Island and First Nations…The Electricity Distributors Association and its 81 local electricity distribution companies want to congratulate the Town of Goderich, Sioux Lookout, Tecumseh, the Town of Whitby and Halton Region for their commitment to energy conservation and being named winners of the province-wide Community Challenge Day on August 11th. The winners were announced recently at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario annual conference in Windsor.
