By the Numbers
For a list of the country''s commercial scale wind energy sites plus solar energy and energy storage projects over one MW in size, see CanREA''s most recent table of project data:
Canada has 341 wind energy projects producing power across the country. Canada ranks 24th in the world for installed solar energy capacity. Canada ranks 9th in the world for installed wind energy capacity. There are nearly 96,000 onsite solar energy installations across Canada.
The new energy will cost 10.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, a price described as "highly competitive". Continuing 2018's growth, Canada finished 2019 with 13,413 MW of wind energy capacity - enough to power approximately 3.4 million homes.
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) has outlined a future strategy for wind energy that would reach a capacity of 55 GW by 2025, meeting 20% of the country's energy needs. Early development of wind energy in Canada was located primarily in Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta. Alberta built the first commercial wind farm in Canada in 1993.
Canadian examples are the community of Ramea, Newfoundland and Labrador that initially used a wind-diesel system and is now being converted to wind-hydrogen technology, and a 10MW / 20MWh battery at the 66 MW Summerview II wind farm in Alberta.
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