Capital Power’s proposed wind project in northeastern British Columbia has received an Environmental Assessment Certificate from the provincial government. The $455 million Quality Wind Project will be a 142MW wind farm with 79 wind turbines across the site located near Tumbler Ridge. The Environmental Assessment process concluded that the proposed project is not likely to have significant adverse effects, based on the mitigation measures and commitments included as conditions of the environmental assessment certificate. Commercial operation is expected by the end of 2012.
Progress Energy Florida estimates its Crystal River nuclear power plant will be back on line by the end of September now that the utility company is working to replace a cracked section of the facility’s containment wall…A bomb and gun attack on a hydroelectric power station in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria region has killed two guards and injured two others. Supplies to the electricity grid were not affected – the flow of water from the dam had been stopped to prevent any flooding downriver.