The Yukon International Wind Energy Conference: Cold Climate Opportunities
Featuring the annual Wind Diesel Workshop
Whitehorse, Yukon
25-28 May 2003
For more details visit: http://www.yec.yk.ca/wind/
Wind energy is a local resource waiting to be harvested by many
communities in cold climates. Wind energy represents a low-impact and
sustainable source of energy. Cold climates represent unique
opportunities given increased air densities and typically expensive
conventional methods of power generation, as well as challenges such as
extreme temperatures and ice.
Many of the challenges are being tackled head-on by teams all over the
world, from Antarctica to Finland, Alaska and the Yukon. The Yukon Wind
Energy Conference is a chance to bring together experts from all over
the world to discuss their successes and lessons learned developing wind
power in cold climates.
Wind-diesel Workshop
Northern and Arctic Ecosystems are often especially fragile, and so
developing low-impact sustainable sources of energy in the North is
particularly important. Every kilowatt of installed wind energy
capacity represents an annual savings of 2,200 kg of CO2 when it
displaces the diesel systems that many of North America's northern
inhabitants depend on for electrical power generation. Diesel fuel is
also costly to import, subjecting communities to the whims of global oil
prices. Wind energy can help to reduce the costs of imported fuel as
well as increase local self-sufficiency. Given the number of remote
diesel communities in northern North America, the Yukon Wind Conference
will also be hosting a one-day wind-diesel workshop put on by Malcolm
Lodge of Island Technologies, on May 25th.
Programs details and Keynote Speakers
The program will feature sessions on project developments, project
implementation and success stories in cold climates, wind energy
modelling in complex terrains, small-scale operations and village
electrification and cold temperature issues.
For more information see: http://www.yec.yk.ca/wind/