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| Location | Main Duck Island Shoal, northeastern Lake Ontario |
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| Status | Under development |
| Owner(s) | Trillium Power Wind Corporation |
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| Primary fuel | Wind |
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| Maximum capacity | 414 MW |
Trillium Power Wind 1 ("TPW1") is a proposed 414 megawatt (MW) offshore wind farm in Canadian waters of northeastern Lake Ontario developed by Trillium Power Wind Corporation, a privately owned company headquartered in Toronto.[1] TPW1 is positioned to be among the first offshore wind farms built in the Great Lakes.[2]
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The TPW1 site is located in northeastern Lake Ontario, 35 km southwest of Kingston, Ontario on the shoals of Main Duck Island.[3] The project, as currently planned, will consist of 138 Vestas V112-3.0 MW offshore turbines[4] and two offshore substations linked to the Lennox Transmission Station by an underwater cable. The total project cost is estimated at $1.5 billion CDN.[3]
The wind farm will produce 1,560 gigawatt hours (GWh) of clean electricity based on a net capacity factor of 43%, which is equivalent to the amount of power consumed by 130,000 typical Ontario households.[3] TPW1 will offset 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 emissions from coal-fired generation and 931,745 tonnes of CO2 emissions from natural gas generation every year.[3] All power generated by the project will be sold to the Ontario Power Authority under a 20-year minimum Power Purchase Agreement. Under Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy Act adopted in May 2009, offshore wind facilities of any size will receive a 19¢ per kilowatt hour (kWh) Feed-in tariff.[5]
Trillium Power is currently undergoing Ontario's Renewable Energy Approval process.[8] As such, Trillium Power is undertaking an array of studies including avian, aquatic, geophysical, ice, wave, navigation and noise. The first round of public consultations were held in Napanee, Ontario, Picton, Ontario and Cape Vincent, New York in early July, 2010.[9][10]
The TPW1 site is located on provincial Crown Land secured through Ontario's Windpower Site Release and Development Program.[11]
The project has been suspended by the Ontario government.[12]
TPW1 is the first of Trillium Power's four unique offshore wind developments in the Great Lakes. Trillium Power's additional sites include: Trillium Power Wind 2, The Great Lakes Array and The Superior Array.