5,000 sq. km 400 new turbines
Okay cbc, how do those numbers add up?
One turbine for every 12.5km²? Seems like a pretty reasonable spread accounting for space in between and geographical features they may have to avoid.
Is that normal now? The ones pictured in the article and all of those I’ve personally seen are more closely spaced. But guess they’ve been getting bigger over time and it would be on-brand for Hydro Québec to go for extra large ones with a few kilometers between them.
… just looking at numbers from around the web it seems like even the largest turbines around don’t normally require that much area. 5000km² seems like roughly an order of magnitude more space than might be expected. I imagine it’s probably the total area of the region they’ll be built somewhere inside of.
Yeah, I think you are right in that idea. Realistically they will be clumped in high wind areas within that 5000km².
la zone Chamouchouane est d’une superficie d’environ 5 000 km2 et se démarque par la qualité et l’ampleur de son potentiel éolien.
Yeah, that’d be where it came from. Anyway I was just trying to mentally compare the size of a wind farm to the size of a typical hydro reservoir. Conclusion: They’re both pretty big.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hydro-Québec has announced its plans to create a $9-billion wind farm in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region that could become one of the largest in North America.
The Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation, Atikamekw of Wemotaci and the municipality of Domaine-du-Roy, Que., announced a partnership with Hydro-Québec on Wednesday to develop the Chamouchouane zone.
km could generate up to 3,000 megawatts as part of the utility’s strategy to increase wind power capacity in the coming years.
A few weeks ago, Hydro-Quebec reiterated the need for 10,000 megawatts of new wind power generated by 2035 to meet the demand for renewable energy, says spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers.
In this sense, the involvement of community partners is essential," said Dominique in a press release Wednesday.
This project also has the opportunity to provide communities with some financial autonomy for housing and services, says Jon-Evan Quoquochi, vice-chief of Wemotaci.
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Well, I guess wind is a fluid
