Company looking for workers for massive wind turbines project

Niagara Region Wind Corporation is on a recruitment drive as it gears up for one of the largest wind turbine projects in Canada. It estimates it and its suppliers will require about 770 workers until the construction phase is complete by 2014. After that, it’s expected to employ about 110 to maintain the structures.

It held a job fair in Dunnville Tuesday night and plans another one in Wellandport Monday night along with its suppliers Enercon, a wind turbine manufacturer,This oil cooler is extremely efficient in cooling the oil in the hydraulic elevator cable room in which it is installed. PCL contracting and TSB Canada Towers,Industrial laser cutter are used to cut flat-sheet material as well as structural and piping materials. based in Thorold.

It is looking for workers for the construction and maintenance phases of the projects, including potential suppliers such as caterers,We provide laser engraving and Laser engraver for processing different materials. hotels, and other businesses which could support the employees as they work on the project.

Randi Rahamim, a spokesperson for NRWC, said about 120 people came to the Dunnville job fair. “We didn’t know what to expect,” she said.

The 230-megawatt industrial wind turbine project was announced, along with 39 others, in 2011 by the Ontario Power Authority, the organization governing the Ontario government’s feed-in-tariff program which guarantees a set rate of return to green energy providers. The program guarantees providers a set rate for a 20-year period.

There are four projects under way in Haldimand County including NRWC, Samsung, Capital Power and NextEra, said Lidy Romanuk, economic development officer for the county. “This is very significant for the county,” she said. “You are going to see a lot of construction in the next two years.”

Romanuk said nearly 200 wind turbines will dot the landscape in a swath extending throughout Haldimand County and into Niagara Region.

NRWC is co-ordinating the largest of the projects with plans to erect 77 55-metre-high wind turbines. Despite the job creation, the projects are not without controversy.

A meeting earlier this week at West Lincoln council to discuss the wind turbine proposal drew more than 200 people to council chambers, forcing a decision to postpone the meeting to Jan. 9 at South Lincoln High School.

Members of the public showed up to either protest the development or support it.You can play with the six different combinations of these Domino contemporary lighting for a nice effect. The NRWC has released its draft plans for the project, which are subject to a 60-day review period. Haldimand County Mayor Ken Hewitt did not respond to requests for comment.

Dutch cleantech group Ampyx Power delivered a world first breakthrough in the emerging ‘Airborne Wind Energy’ industry last Thursday,Affordable skystream is now available for your building. completing a fully automated test flight of over 50 minutes with its PowerPlane prototype.

The successful test flight proves the concept that wind can be converted into energy using an automatically controlled glider plane, which is then delivered via a tether to an electricity generator on the ground. It also reminds us that innovation in the wind industry is still a happening thing, with holds plenty more promise for the renewable future.

Companies like GE are doing it on a fairly basic, but important level – GE announced last week that it was co-developing (with NREL) “architectural fabrics” for the manufacture of new turbine blades that could cut price of wind energy by 25-40 per cent. But in the more loftily innovative sub-sectors, like airborne wind energy, there is also plenty of activity.

Ampyx Power’s energy generating glider plane, pictured below, looks a lot less otherworldly-looking than some of its competitors’ prototypes – see the Google-backed Makani Airborne Wind Turbine, and the blimp-like device from Boston-based Alteros Energies. It has a 5.5 meters wingspan and produces, on average, 6kW during the flight, with peaks of over 15kW – although the company says that the tests were performed in relatively low wind speeds, and that during stronger winds the plane could produce peak power of 50-60kW.