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Scotian WindFields Inc and Emera Inc have announced the signing of a Development Agreement for the 30MW Digby Neck Wind Project.

“We are excited to be able to move this project forward and have it completed in 2010. The Digby Neck Wind Project will play an important role in reducing Nova Scotia’s Greenhouse Gas emissions and represents a positive investment for the community shareholders of Scotian WindFields Inc.“ said Barry Zwicker, Chief Executive Officer of Scotian WindFields Inc.

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Scotian WindFields Inc is happy to announce that it has been awarded three wind power projects totaling 6MW capacity by NS Power. The projects were announced today by Nova Scotia Power.

Scotian WindFields will announce more information about these projects in the coming weeks. See the official release from NS Power below:

December 7, 2009 DARTMOUTH - Scotian Carbon Services Consultant, Gay Harley was chosen to lead Nova Scotia’s climate change observer delegation to Copenhagen this week. The Environmental Services Association of Nova Scotia (ESANS) is an observer organization that is accredited to attend the United Nations climate meetings in Denmark. ESANS has facilitated activities for Nova Scotia’s business delegation mission to the 15th Conference of Parties.

DARTMOUTH, NS – June 8, 2009 – Today Scotian WindFields Inc announced the launch of a new services company dedicated to helping Nova Scotia businesses navigate the North American carbon economy. Scotian Carbon Services was established as a new division of Scotian WindFields.

DARTMOUTH, NS – May 14, 2009 - Scotian WindFields Inc announced today the installation of a 100kW wind turbine at the Atlantic Superstore in Porters Lake , its first commercial scale wind generator in Nova Scotia. The turbine will provide onsite renewable energy to Canada's largest grocery store chain, Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw), and will account for approximately 25 per cent of the store’s energy usage. With this project, Loblaw continues to take a leadership role in green innovation by entering into an agreement with Scotian WindFields to provide onsite renewable energy generation.

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Scotian WindFields is proud to announce the launch of the Digby Wind Project website, www.digbywindproject.com. This website  provides an outline of the project, and answers to many common questions associated with wind energy development. The website should prove to be a useful resource to the community regarding events, progress, and frequent project updates. People are encouraged to follow the progress of the project through direct access to background documents and frequent updates by clicking through to www.digbywindproject.com.

For Immediate Release April 15, 2009

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Scotian WindFields Inc is proud to announce the completion of its first commercial-scale solar project by its new solar division, Doctor Solar. The solar hot water system was installed on a 41-unit apartment building in Clayton Park, which is owned and operated by Killam Properties Inc. The system utilizes 40 solar hot water panels mounted on the roof, and will save Killam Properties Inc over 7000L of oil a year.
 

News Release – December 10th, 2008

Nova Scotia needs to implement carbon cap and trade now

Late to game, Nova Scotia can learn from successes and challenges of other jurisdictions

Scotian WindFields is pleased to announce that they have been successful in their application to the ecoNova Scotia program for the installation of a flow battery energy storage system. Scotian WindFields will work with VRB Power Systems of Richmond, BC to install two of their vanadium-based redox regenerative fuel cell Energy Storage Systems (ESS). Each VRB-ESS will have an output of 60kW with 4 hours worth of storage capacity.