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INDUSTRY NEWS A shot of one of the turbines at Erie Shores Wind Farm, which had its official grand opening in April of this year. It was developed by AIM PowerGen Corp. Photo courtesy AIM PowerGen Corp. AIM PowerGen Corp. acquired Renewable Energy Generation (REG) Ltd. acquired Canadian wind power developer AIM PowerGen Corp., giving the latter access to capital markets to help it take advantage of opportunities in the Canadian wind energy marketplace. “With the experienced development team at AIM combined with the support of the REG team in both the U.K. and Canada, we expect to be at the forefront as Canada develops its huge wind resources,” said REG chair Mike Liston. A private windfarm developer founded in 2001, Toronto-based AIM already has over 2600MW of Canadian wind projects in various stages of development in the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island. “AIM can now also offer partnering opportunities to the many wind power developers who are looking for a strategic partner of their own,” said Mike Crawley, AIM’s president and CEO. “REG brings significant international experience and know how, as well as capital.” Under the terms of the agreement, REG will acquire AIM for $29.1 million, which will continue to operate in Canada under its current name with senior management continuing in its current role. Canada recently celebrated its first 1000MW of installed wind capacity. According to the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), this is expected to grow to over 9000MW by 2015. REG regards Canada as a strategic market for the continued growth and diversification of its portfolio of wind farms. Caterpillar expands electric power manufacturing Caterpillar’s Newberry, S.C., facility is now manufacturing Caterpillar-brand diesel gensets in the 10kW to 200kW range. First off the line are the D25–D100 generator sets and XQ30–XQ100 rental packages, all powered by Cat C3.3 and C4.4 engines. The D125-D175 gensets, powered by the C6.6 engine, will follow. With this expansion, the company feels it can provide improved availability and lead times to its North American customers for this power range. In addition to the diesel-powered gensets, the 10kW to 100kW Caterpillar natural gaspowered versions will continue to be assembled at the Newberry facility, meeting the needs of smaller retail operations, homes, farms and municipal authorities. Belden boasts a new identity Belden CDT—a designer, manufacturer and marketer of signal transmission products for data networking and a range of specialty electronics markets—has launched an initiative to unify its corporate identity with its flagship brand. It has changed its name to just ‘Belden’ and introduced a new tagline: “Belden: Sending All the Right Signals”. To coincide with this switch, Belden has published a new master catalogue for 2006. OEB and Hydro Ottawa start ‘smart’ pilot With the support of Hydro Ottawa, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is starting the Ontario Smart Price pilot project, which is designed to help it learn how consumers use opportunities to conserve electricity with ‘smart’ meters and timeof-use (TOU) prices. The project will provide participating consumers with more information on how they use electricity, and how shifting use to off-peak periods can help them save money. OEB expects to form three separate groups of Hydro Ottawa consumer volunteers with smart meters installed at their homes, and will be looking for potential consumption differences between them according to: • standard TOU pricing where rates change in relation to periods of off-peak, mid-peak and on-peak demand; • TOU with critical peak pricing (CPP), and; • TOU with critical peak rebates (CPR). The pilot should run for about five months, with results to be presented early next year. INFO NO. X 3M_EB_April06 1 6 • SEPTEMBER 2006 • www. mag.com INFO NO. 5 3/15/06 9:24:33 AM Environmental permit issued for Cascade Heritage Powerhouse Developments Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sea Breeze Power Corp., announced the issuance of a British Columbia Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Cascade Heritage power project: a 25MW ‘run-of-river’ hydroelectric facility that would be situated on the Kettle River, about 18 km east of Grand Forks, B.C. The project is designed to generate 81GW/h of power each year, and has an interesting link to the past: it would be built on the historic site of Cascade Water Power and Light Co., which operated from 1897 to 1921 and was one of the first locations in North America to produce threephase, 60-cycle alternating current. See yourself online at EBmag.com The <strong>Electrical</strong> <strong>Business</strong> photo gallery is up and running at EBmag.com (click on Photo Gallery). Check out some of the events we’ve attended and the people we met.
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