Report

The Pickering Wind Generating Station Tour on September 17 attracted 75 IEEE members, guests and student members from U of T, Ryerson and Waterloo. Power and environment engineers showed enormous interests in wind power generation.

The two presentations, given by Mr. Chuck Edey from OPG and Mr. Dave Young from Kinectrics, were very informative. As a consequence, the presentations ran an extra 40 minutes untill 8 o’clock without any one leaving. After the presentations, a crowd of people still circled the speakers with additional questions for half an hour. Everyone had their supper while enjoying a video tape about the OPG wind turbine. As more people arrived for the tour, the second group visited the tunnel in the dark till 9 o’clock.

The Toronto Section notes its appreciation to OPG for their hospitality by providing a bus to the site and also thanks Chuck for his excellent introduction. As Chuck commented, this IEEE tour group was quite different from typical tour groups by showing higher professional interest and understanding. We hope our members and guests who benefited from this esperience will contribute to the development and acceptance of wind generation in Ontario in the near future.

During the tour the members of the Power Engineering Society received a CD of the Proceedings of the PES General Meeting held in Toronto last July.

Photographs

Taken by Jane Zhao, Secretary of the Engineering & Human Environment Chapter, during the visit to the Pickering Wind Generating Station.   Please click on any of the images, to view full size.

The OPG Presentation

The Kinectrics Presentation

Al Wallas thanks Chuck Edey

Al Wallis thanks Dave Young

One of the first uses of our Section banner - made to display at Section and Chapter meetings