The Isle Pierre Wind Farm is a potential 60 MW project in Northern BC. The site is located on an elevated plateau with undulating hills. M.K. Ince and Associates is performing engineering work and environmental consulting on the project.

Raising the Isle Pierre Meteorological Tower

Planning and Consultation

• Crown Land Investigative Use Permits and Licenses of Occupation were obtained for 10,000 hectare area
• Potential stakeholders and First Nations groups consulted early in the permitting process
• Memorandum of understandings signed with local First Nations group
• Preliminary interconnection investigations done to identify available grid transmission capacity

Environmental Assessment

• Work commenced recently
• Migrating and breeding bird field surveys underway
• Archaeological studies
• Terrestrial wildlife studies

Wind Resource Assessment

• 60m meteorological tower installed in March 2008
• Data collection ongoing
• Long term correlation was performed using Measure-Correlate-Predict analysis for nearby weather stations
• Several interim reports produced
• Preliminary wind farm layouts designed for several possible project sizes
• Energy yield calculations performed