Workers at the Port of Vancouver looked the size of ants on Monday as they stood near the largest wind turbine blades to ever reach the West Coast.
The wind turbine pieces arrived by ship from China in May and July. They were manufactured by Goldwind Americas. In the coming months, they will be trucked to Canada, for a renewable-energy program from Toronto-based project owner Potentia Renewables. Potentia’s project, called the Golden South Wind Energy Project, is a $325 million project on 34,000 acres of farmland near Regina, Saskatchewan.
The project includes 50 wind turbines, which will generate 900,000 megawatt-hours of electricity and thus remove more than 500,000 tons of carbon from the power grid, according to a news release from the Port of Vancouver. The project is due to begin harvesting wind in early 2021.