The Alberta government recently announced a new step towards its Climate Leadership Plan goals in transitioning from the Specified Gas Emitters Regulation (SGER) for large emitters to the Carbon Compe ...

The results of Alberta’s first competitive renewable energy procurement confirm what I’ve been saying since the process launched earlier this year: Albertans are paying the lowest prices ever seen for ...

A November 2017 report by U.S. investment firm Lazard shows that wind energy costs continue to track lower across the globe. Since 2009, the unsubsidized levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for onshore ut ...

With over 12,000 MW of installed wind energy already in Canada and more on the way, the operation and maintenance (O&M) of wind generating facilities is becoming an increasingly important focus fo ...

New fact sheet helps landowners and rural communities learn more about living and farming around wind turbines If you’ve been following our blogs in recent months, you will know that both Saskatchewan ...

Mutual understanding of the legal implications of wind energy lease agreements is imperative There has been keen interest in the question of whether the wind industry should work with licensed land ag ...

Following the October 2017 release of Ontario’s updated Long-Term Energy Plan (LTEP), Delivering Fairness and Choice, the focus is now on implementation. Canada’s wind energy industry is contributing ...

Municipal leaders, constituents interested in wind farms, lease payments, decommissioning, tax revenues and regulations In January I participated on a panel for the Rural Municipalities and Renewable ...

For the fourth year in a row the Canadian wind energy industry gathered in Toronto at the CanWEA Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Summit. The event took place January 30 and 31 at the Hilton Missi ...

Many thanks to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) for putting on another excellent Wind Project O&M and Safety Conference. With almost 1,000 wind industry operations and maintenance (O ...