CBC News
Wind turbines installed at four P.E.I. rinks are not performing as expected.
The rinks each invested about $70,000 in the turbines in 2011, with government also picking up part of the cost. After almost a year of breakdowns and delays, last March they started turning, But they haven’t generated the expected electricity savings.
“We’re very dissatisfied,” said Myles MacDonald, president of the board at the Northumberland Arena. “It’s made about $1,800 in the last 10 months — that’s the energy it’s produced — which is about four per cent of our electricity bill.”
The project is being managed by the Wind Energy Institute of Canada, and CEO Scott Harper agrees the results are below expectations. Read article
did they really expect anything else – i guess there is one born every minute
his community wants its money back….hmmmmm do yah think that will happen?
there is stupid…..looking right at ya for 5 years!