b'FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 19, 2023 NORTH AMERICAS TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS NEWSPAPER 41Wind energy projects onPROJECT CARGO BI-ANNUALstrong growth trajectory across CanadaBy Leo Ryan, AJOTThe second largest coun- mitmenttonet-zeroGHG try in the world after Russia,emissions by 2050.Canadabenefitsfromvast areas offering abundant windW esternC anadaresourceswithsignificantC aPaCityg roWingpotential for the expansion ofWind energy alone grew wind-generated power. Whileby 7.1% (1 GW) in 2022 to a someofthehighestqualitynew total of more than 15 GW areas are along coastlines andofinstalledcapacity.Inthis offshore,noneoftheesti- regard, Western Canada blew matedthreedozenoffshoreahead of the pack, thanks to projectstodayhavereachedbig growth in Alberta (nearly the approval or build phase.605 MW) and Saskatchewan Thedevelopmentofcoastal(377 MW), as well as some DCLI_156_22_TPM 2023 Show_JOC Program Guide Ad_8x10-875_00a_NH-CROPS.pdf 1 2/10/23 4:10 PMwindfarmsontheGreat(24 MW) of new wind capac-Lakesandelsewherehasity in Quebec.beendeterredespeciallyby(STRONGcontinued onPlanned huge green energy facility at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia to receive power from regional onshore wind farm. environmentallyinfluencedpage 42) Photo courtesy of EverWindregulatoryissuesandlegal proceedings.Forthepres-ent, only Nova Scotia, on the AtlanticCoast,isseriously poised to become an impor-tant player in offshore energy.o PtimistiCo Utlook foro nshoreW indP roJeCtsBut in the case of inland onshore projects, the outlook is highly positive - with wind farmsspreadingfromthe easternandwesternregions to the Far North. More is on the horizon with reports that the 2023 federal budget being unveiledsoonwillaccord majorpriorityandinvest-ments for accelerating Cana-das energy transition.Offering,meanwhile,a good overview of the evolv-ing landscape is the Canadian RenewableEnergyAsso-ciation(CanREA),whos recentlyreleasedyear-end Cdata confirmed that Canadas Mwind and solar energy sectors Ygrew markedly in 2022. CMI am happy to see that, acrossCanada,thesector MYgrew by an impressive 10.5% CYthis year, said Phil McKay, CMYCanREAsSeniorDirector, KTechnical and Utility Affairs. Canada now has an installed capacity of more than 19 GW of utility-scale wind and solar energy,havingaddedmore than 1.8 GW of new genera-tion capacity in 2022.Western Canada accounted for98%ofCanadastotal growth in 2022, with Alberta adding1,391MWandSas-katchewanadding387MW of installed capacity this year. Quebeccontributed24MW to the total growth for 2022, Ontario10MW,andNova Scotia 2 MW. The 2022 growth of 1.8 GW was significantly larger thanin2021,althoughit does not meet the growth rate called for in CanREAs 2050 Vision,PoweringCanadas JourneytoNet-Zero,which statesthatCanadaneedsto deploymorethan5GWof newwindandsolarenergy every year to meet its com-'