Windmills in Toronto
My Toronto Includes Windmills logo from Toronto Environmental Alliance.
The first Wind Turbine went up between December 16 and 18, 2002, and it is located at Exhibition Place besde Lakeshore Drive across from Ontario Place on the shore of Lake Ontario. It was erected by Windshare and the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative.
The TREC Windshare turbine at Exhibition Place began generating electricity Thursday, January 23, 2003 at about noon - the culmination of more than 5 years' work. By 9 p.m., the first megawatt hour of electricity had been fed into the Toronto Hydro grid.
Co-operatively owned, and fully financed by the sale of shares to individuals and organizations, dividends will flow to co-op members as a proportionate share of the net proceeds of the sale of the power to Toronto Hydro.
TREC continues to press for the right to deliver its power directly to its members – something that the “opening of the market” should have enabled, and which is a central feature of the TREC co-op model.
The mill is 91 metres high (the hub is 65 metres). It maximum power output is rated at 750 kW, and it's estimated to produce 1400 MW/h per year of electrical power.
Proposed Windmills
There is a community meeting on about installing new wind turbines, aka windmills, in Lake Ontario.
Monday, November 24 at 6:30 p.m.
Llocation: Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate Institute, 145 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough
