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Wind Energy

The statistics below help provide a comparison between hydro production and wind production.

  • Installed hydro capacity in Canada: 70,858 MW1

  • Installed wind capacity in Canada (as of April 2011): 4,588 MW2
     
  • Percentage of Canada's total electricity demand met by wind: about 23
     
  • Installed wind capacity in Canada in 2000: 140 MW4

  • Installed wind capacity in Manitoba: 237 MW5
     
  • Wind capacity in Canada could reach 11,900 to 17,100 MW by 2020.6
     
  • Installed wind capacity in the US as of September 2010: 36,698 MW (with an additional 6,925 under construction)7
     
  • Installed wind capacity in the US in 2002: 4,417 MW8

  • Wind capacity by province (as of April 2011):9
    • Ontario:            1,636 MW
    • Alberta:               807 MW
    • Quebec:              663 MW
    • New Brunswick:  294 MW
    • Nova Scotia:       282.5 MW
    • BC:                     248 MW
    • Manitoba:           237 MW



More fact sheets:
Hydropower Worldwide
Manitoba Hydro Finances
Manitoba Hydro Operations
Exports
Wind Energy

See also: Impacts
                The Future of Hydro

 

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Notes

  1. Source: "Hydropower in Canada: Past, Present and Future," Canadian Hydropower Association, 2008, p.17 (accessed January 2011).
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  2. Source: Canadian Wind Energy Association webpage on Canadian wind farms (accessed April 2011).
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  3. Ibid.
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  4. Source: "Power Connections: Canadian Electricity Trade and Foreign Policy," Roger J. Goodman, Canadian International Council, June 2010, page 17.
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  5. Sources: Manitoba Hydro's web section on Wind-Powered Generation (accessed January 2011). "Mixed news in renewable energy: Province's new wind turbines starting to crank out power," Larry Kusch, Winnipeg Free Press, January 12, 2011, page A.4
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  6. Source: "Power Connections: Canadian Electricity Trade and Foreign Policy," Roger J. Goodman, Canadian International Council, June 2010, page 17.
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  7. Source: American Wind Energy Association's "U.S. Projects Database," (accessed January 2011). 
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  8. Source: "Power Connections: Canadian Electricity Trade and Foreign Policy," Roger J. Goodman, Canadian International Council, June 2010, page 17.
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  9. Sources: Canadian Wind Energy Association webpage on Canadian wind farms (accessed April 2011). While CWEA lists Manitoba's wind capacity at 242 MW, Manitoba Hydro's webpage on wind lists it at 237 MW.
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