Port Albert wind farms Ltd. single Vestas V47-660 kW wind turbine installation

This paper deals with the deregulation of the Ontario electricity market, in the spring of 2001 David Thompson (my partner) and myself decided to take the first step to make our dream become a reality to install a wind farm along the Lake Huron Shoreline. We decided to install a single Vestas V47-660 kW wind turbine near the village of port Albert within about 4 km of the Lake Huron Shoreline. I have taken wind measurements in the area as far back as 1992 and we were confident that the area had an economically viable wind resource which with the right incentives could be developed. The power was initially sold to Ontario power generation (OPG) into the interim market until the wholesale electricity market opened in May of 2002. Since that time the power has been sold at spot market rates to hydro one but without selling the associated environmental attributes to the utility.