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DOKIE WIND PROJECT REVIVED
Construction is now 80 percent complete on the Dokie Wind Project, the province's largest wind farm, located near Chetwynd in the Peace Region.
The project stalled when Dokie's first developer, EarthFirst Canada, entered bankruptcy protection. Plutonic Power Corporation partnered with GE Energy Financial Services to resurrect the project with a$227-million investment.
"The Dokie project was one of the very first sites identified as being prospective for wind development in British Columbia," says Don McInnes, Vice President and CEO of Plutonic Power Corporation.
Dokie's 48 towers, each as tall as a 27-storey office building, will generate 144 MW of electricity annually, enough to power over 32,000 homes. A feasibility study to expand the Dokie project to 300 megawattsisnowunderway. "We'revery excited about that opportunity," says McInnes.
PEACE REGION POWER PLAY
Finavera has four projects in the windy Peace Region--three at Tumbler Ridge and one at Chetwynd--which will generate 300 MW of electricity annually, sufficient to power 75,000 homes. They represent an $800-million investment, built out one per year over the next four years, saysFinaveraRenewablesCEOJasonBak.
The fact that Finavera's head office movedfromIrelandtoVancouverin2005 isatestamenttothepotentialofthissustainable source. "B. C.'s excellent wind resource and existing hydro storage and transmission infrastructure means the province is poised for huge growth in windenergy," saysBak.
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