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Canada, as a whole, is supporting clean energy technologies that encourage
Harnessing Newfoundland and Labrador''s wind energy to create the fuel of the future
Project Nujio’qonik rendering
The Mi''kmaw name for Bay St. George is Nujio''qonik. Pronounced ''new-geo-ho-neek,'' it means ‘where the sand blows''.
We''re perfectly positioned to meet global demand.We have the wind. The west coast of Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the best wind resource regions in the world with more than 11GW of wind development capacity in the project area.We have the access. We own the Port of Stephenville, with deepwater marine facilities and a harbour ready for global export.And we have the location. Newfoundland and Labrador offers one of the shortest shipping routes between North America and Europe, with potential for co-locating industries in Stephenville.
We respectfully acknowledge our project area as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk and the Mi''kmaq.
We also acknowledge the island of Newfoundland as the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq.
We recognize all First Peoples who were here before us, those who live with us now, and the seven generations to come.
It has been nationally and internationally recognized. In 2021, the International Smart Grid Action Network awarded Saint John Energy its top prize. Electricity Canada also chose us for a national award for our efforts in curbing carbon-intensive peak energy.
It relies on advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to smooth the load on our electrical system. The smart grid connects to a variety of residential and large-scale equipment to optimize energy use, including:
Energy storage: utility-scale and residential-scale batteries, electric vehicles
Thermal storage devices, such as electric water heaters
Load control elements: baseboard heaters, heat pumps, standby generators
Other Distributed Energy Resources (DERs): Diesel generators, Burchill Wind Project
Why Newfoundland and Labrador can''t seem to get small-scale renewable energy off the ground
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In 2010, Nick Mercer disembarked from the ferry in Port aux Basques, N.L., to find the Trans-Canada Highway closed due to unsafe weather conditions.
It wasn''t ice or rain threatening to shove his cozy Hyundai Accent into the ditch — it was wind.
Mercer was in disbelief but would learn — through his master''s at Memorial University, his PhD in geology and environmental management at the University of Waterloo and a great deal of first-hand experience — that Newfoundland and Labrador has some of the fiercest winds in all of North America. It could go toe-to-toe with any jurisdiction in the world. This revelation brought with it a question, one that took hold of him on that first day in Port aux Basques and directed the course of his career: "How is it possible to have such a profound wind energy resource, but still be ranked last dead (dead last) in wind energy capacity?"
Newfoundland and Labrador has less installed wind generation capacity than any other Canadian province, a grand total of 54 megawatts across two wind farms. By comparison, neighbouring Nova Scotia, which has less wind to work with, has in excess of 600 megawatts of installed wind capacity.
A 2008 assessment from Memorial University concluded Newfoundland and Labrador could theoretically generate 117 times the amount of energy it consumes just from wind. And an analysis from 2016, published in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, calculated that if the province harnessed only a quarter of its high-capacity wind sites, it could power a spectacular 20 per cent of the country. And yet, only 18 turbines stand, with no more on the horizon.
The province, he discovered, was rooted in offshore oil and terrestrial hydroelectricity, with little bandwidth for anything else. Whereas provinces like New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Prince Edward Island have all decreased their carbon emissions, Newfoundland and Labrador has seen emissions climb by 5.4 per cent since 2005 and increased its oil consumption. The Way Forward, a provincial government action plan for the next decade, committed in 2019 to cutting greenhouse gas emissions 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. But Newfoundland and Labrador has missed the mark before: the same report noted the province would not achieve a 2020 emissions-reduction goal of 10 per cent below 1990 levels.
Newfoundland and Labrador aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province in Canada without some kind of carbon-reduction legislation in place, perhaps due to the province''s reliance on revenue from its plentiful oil and gas reserves.
Over the past two decades, offshore oil and gas has accounted for 25 per cent of the province''s gross domestic product and 41 per cent of its total exports, says Ken Morrissey, senior adviser for communications, research and policy with the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil & Gas Industries Association.
The industry has paid $20 billion in royalties to the province since 1997 (by far the largest industry contributor) and directly employs approximately 6,500 of its residents.
And there''s no shortage of fossil fuels yet to exploit.
According to a 2020 assessment from the international oil and gas consultancy Beicip-Franlab, there are potentially 63.3 billion barrels of oil and 224.1 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting in Newfoundland and Labrador''s offshore reserves.
"This is some of the greatest offshore resource potential in the world," said Morrissey.
In The Way Forward, former minister of natural resources Siobhan Coady writes: "The (offshore oil and gas) industry''s impact on local employment, business opportunities and government revenue has made a significant contribution to our standard of living, including the public infrastructure, programs and services we deliver to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador We need to foster a culture of collaboration and entrepreneurship to increase our global competitiveness, maximize economic recovery, drive innovation and supplier capabilities, and reduce the time from prospectivity to production."
The province has embraced hydroelectricity, but while a renewable source of power, its largest endeavour comes at the expense of wind. In 2012, Newfoundland and Labrador sanctioned the controversial Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam. This project, criticized for its potential environmental impacts and dangers posed to communities downstream, has cost the province over $13 billion. In order to secure debt financing for the project, the province had to guarantee a reliable customer base for its electricity, and so passed Bill 61, effectively restricting small-scale renewable power projects by communities and companies across the province, forcing both to buy power from Muskrat Falls rather than establishing their own renewables.
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