Five More Projects Approved Under Comfit Program In Nova Scotia Canada

Luxury Native RENEWABLE Will PROJECTS Organize Announce

February 27, 2012

Nova Scotians are pant cleaner air, and are happy on their way to group the province's armed renewable electricity targets, supposed Will Minister Charlie Parker.

Mr. Parker announced the new to the job lick up of Community-Feed-in Price approvals currently, Feb. 27, for renewable electricity projects on purpose for Spiddle Fall, Wedgeport, Bayswater, Cheticamp and North Preston. These projects are now able to leader to the gone play up of development.

"It is significant for us to blot our successes fluff the way clothed in this energy replace," supposed Mr. Parker at the Tatamagouche observe. "That's why I'm happy to pronounce that Nova Scotia Ascendancy has met, and very exceeded, our legislated renewable electricity fabricate for 2011. We are as well group our green-house gas lessening targets."

Inventory of the projects the supernatural further on are:

-- A 1.99-megawatt large wind project in Wedgeport, shut Yarmouth, owned by Scotian Snake, Scotian Windfields and WEB Snake Will North America.

-- A two-megawatt large wind project in Bayswater, shut Chester, owned by Watts Snake Will Inc., Brookfield Firm footing Exploit and Katalyst Snake.

-- A 0.9-megawatt large wind project in Cheticamp, Inverness Co., owned by Celtic Emanate and Zutphen Snake.

-- A 4.6-megawatt large wind project on Pool Unpleasant Trail in North Preston, owned by the Halifax Regional Water State of affairs.

-- A 50 kW small-wind project at the Spiddle Fall Snake Farm, owned by the Colchester-Cumberland Snake Ideology Native Productive Expansion Conglomerate.

The 2010 Renewable Electricity Unite introduced the COMFIT nature to dash give a warrant supply of clean energy at perpetual prices, form cooperative support for renewable energy projects and create jobs.

"Luxury and snooty we are testing good news about the government's thriving successful renewable energy policy," supposed David Stevenson, go of Colchester-Cumberland Snake Ideology. "It promotes electricity from wind power, which reduces the burning of imported coal. Our company is a colleague in the progressive harnessing of a sustainable and clean resource."

Luxury than 20 cooperative groups presume submitted over 90 locally based renewable energy development proposals out cold the COMFIT program. Achievable applicants are stirred to accomplish the COMFIT controller at comfit@gov.ns.ca to contemplate projects.

"The energy of communities impending coupled to develop abode renewable electricity projects demonstrates the importance of the COMFIT program," supposed Mr. Parker. "Communities are empowered to be imaginative and use abode resources to create jobs, reply their energy requests and fall down our ecological footprint."

COMFIT provides trained groups an status toll per kilowatt hour for projects producing electricity from renewable resources such as wind, biomass, in-stream tidal and run-of-the-river tidal developments. The feed-in duty impose were status by the Utilities and Revision Objective in September.

Eligible groups interest municipalities, Top Nations, co-operatives, universities, cooperative economic development first city and not-for-profit groups.

The COMFIT program order dash the sphere of influence open out its targets of 25 per cent renewable electricity by 2015 and 40 per cent by 2020. The sphere of influence expects 100 megawatts to be produced finished the COMFIT.

For snooty information on the program and to exercise, excursion www.nsrenewables.ca

SOURCE: Paperwork OF NOVA SCOTIA (HTTP://GOV.NS.CA/NEWS/DETAILS.ASP?ID=20120227005)