{"id":38961,"date":"2017-06-16T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38961"},"modified":"2017-06-15T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T12:58:22","slug":"canadas-oldest-wind-farm-shutting-down-but-if-there-is-an-incentive-wed-jump-all-over-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/16\/canadas-oldest-wind-farm-shutting-down-but-if-there-is-an-incentive-wed-jump-all-over-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s oldest wind farm shutting down but &#8220;if there is an incentive, we\u2019d jump all over that&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the oldest operating wind farm in Alberta is <a href=\"http:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/business\/energy\/oldest-commercial-wind-farm-in-canada-headed-for-scrapyard-after-23-years\" target=\"_blank\">desperately hoping for a big government subsidy<\/a> to replace the old wind turbines at their Cowley Ridge facility:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 years of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity \u2014 and its owner says building a replacement depends on the next moves of the provincial NDP government.<\/p>\n<p>TransAlta Corp. said Tuesday the blades on 57 turbines at its Cowley Ridge facility near Pincher Creek have already been halted and the towers are to be toppled and recycled for scrap metal this spring. The company inherited the now-obsolete facility, built between 1993 and 1994, as part of its $1.6-billion hostile takeover of Calgary-based Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransAlta is very interested in repowering this site. Unfortunately, right now, it\u2019s not economically feasible,\u201d Wayne Oliver, operations supervisor for TransAlta\u2019s wind operations in Pincher Creek and Fort Macleod, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re anxiously waiting to see what incentives might come from our new government. . . . Alberta is an open market and the wholesale price when it\u2019s windy is quite low, so there\u2019s just not the return on investment in today\u2019s situation. So, if there is an incentive, we\u2019d jump all over that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February, TransAlta president and chief executive Dawn Farrell said the company\u2019s plans to invest in hydroelectric, wind, solar and natural gas cogeneration facilities in Alberta were on hold until the details of the province\u2019s climate-change plans are known.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the oldest operating wind farm in Alberta is desperately hoping for a big government subsidy to replace the old wind turbines at their Cowley Ridge facility: The oldest commercial wind power facility in Canada has been shut down and faces demolition after 23 years of transforming brisk southern Alberta breezes into electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,84],"tags":[542,640,245,497,793],"class_list":["post-38961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-government","tag-alberta","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-climatechange","tag-electricity","tag-subsidies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a8p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38962,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38961\/revisions\/38962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}