Unique Winds over The Great Lakes.
The winds over The Great Lakes offer more powerful and reliable energy than most offshore locations worldwide. Higher wind speeds, better wind consistency and greater air density all make the winds of The Great Lakes an exceptional source of safe, powerful, perpetual and reliable energy.
There are many factors that affect the feasibility of a wind farm including construction costs, proximity to sufficient grid capacity and the strength and continuity of the wind resources. The desired location is that which incorporates all of the above factors - particularly superior wind resources - to ensure the generation of reliable and economical offshore wind energy.
Trillium Power's management team has been working on offshore wind development activities in The Great Lakes for nearly 15 years and has registered several of the best locations in The Great Lakes region. Trillium Power's wise and steady activities over many years placed Ontario in the leading group of the global offshore wind sector until February 11, 2011 when the Government of Ontario illegally moved to confiscate all Offshore Wind sites on Ontario's side of The Great Lakes.
Trillium Power Wind 1, located in the Trillium Power Energy Field, is the first of our preferred offshore wind development locations in The Great Lakes. As you would expect, it has exceptional wind resources. Trillium Power has harnessed its extensive offshore wind knowledge to identify and obtain the exclusive rights to 3 additional unique offshore wind sites in The Great Lakes.
On February 11, 2011, while Trillium Power was closing a $20+ million financing that Ministers of the Ontario Government had been apprised of in advance, the Ontario Government abruptly cancelled all offshore wind developments in The Great Lakes and confiscated all registered offshore wind sites and all data that had been developed at substantial cost to offshore wind investors in Ontario. Domestic and global investors are seriously shocked at Ontario's reckless actions that seek to destroy year's worth of work and effort. As this situation was not quickly corrected by the Ontario Government, many thousands of sustainable, long-term manufacturing, construction and other jobs that would be created by Trillium Power's 4 offshore wind projects have be destroyed. According to a Conference Board of Canada Report (CBoC) only 2,000 MW of offshore wind development in Ontario would create 6,500 permanent jobs and over 62,000 person-years of construction and other employment.
The Ontario Government has to come clean to the citizens of Ontario and explain: why they have undertaken this illegal action against their North America-leading offshore wind developer even though U.S. Great Lake States continue to actively accelerate their own offshore wind developments; why they have chosen to destroy thousands of well-paying, sustainable jobs when Ontario desperately needs all of the well-paying, sustainable jobs that it can create; why has the Ontario Government issued a directive that the Ontario Power Authority/IESO must obtain a minimum of 50% of the electricity supply mix from expensive, heavily subsidized and extremely risky nuclear power instead of requiring at least 50% of the electricity supply to come from various forms of renewable energy (not including existing hydro) by 2030; and, why Ontario is not learning from Germany, a renewable energy leader, and phasing out all nuclear facilities in Ontario on a strictly defined timetable.
Ontarians have a right to know the truth regarding the aforementioned issues.
Together Trillium Power's 4 projects will generate approximately 3.5 GW (3,500 MW) of clean, reliable and affordable energy.
