Seaforth Energy Inc. of Dartmouth — a wind turbine manufacturer with a specialty in integrating renewable energy projects — will be able to use the $2 million it’s raised recently to scale up operations in order to deliver on backlogged orders for its 50 kilowatt turbine – an all Canadian product built in Nova Scotia. The company’s turbines are a fraction of the size of the three-megawatt turbines being installed on Dalhousie Mountain, Pictou County. The turbine would go on a 30- to 36-metre tower and it would have a rotor diameter of 15 metres. A large turbine would have a rotor diameter nowadays, probably, of 60 to 80 metres…The mighty St. Lawrence River will soon be home to an underwater power-generating project that could one day churn in rivers across Canada. a pair of 3.2-metre-high river turbines — which resemble giant jet engines — will be plunked into the waves near Montreal as part of a pilot project. The operation will start off small, producing a total of 500 kilowatts of energy. The federal and provincial governments are also on board, funding one-third of the $18-million project. But the underwater powerhouses have also been known to cripple — and kill — underwater wildlife – the bigger fish in the St. Lawrence, such as the sturgeon, are at the most risk…Ballard Power Systems announced the successful completion, during second quarter, of factory testing of a utility-scale distributed generation system using the company’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Installation and commissioning of the system for a multi- year demonstration at FirstEnergy Generation Corp’s Eastlake Plant in Ohio is planned for third quarter of this year. Ballard designed the generator to provide clean energy peaking capacity, which is particularly useful during heavy energy demand periods in the summer months, and tested the generator to a power level of one megawatt.
Mini Turbines Built in Nova Scotia; St Lawrence River Turbines
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