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April 14, 2022

WEICan Receives Funding from the Province of PEI Climate Challenge Fund


WEICan has been awarded $99,900 from the Province of PEI’s Climate Challenge Fund. This funding will allow WEICan to take advantage of our long history of expertise in meteorological data and renewable energy assets, as well as our recently commissioned Climate Monitoring Facility, funded by the Climate Challenge Fund in partnership with the University of Prince Edward Island Climate Research Laboratory (UPEI-CRL), to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation through improved climate data and sharing and improved renewable energy efficiency. The goals of this project are to:

1.       Improve knowledge of climate change by enhancing the WEICan/UPEI-CRL Climate Monitoring Facility with additional instrumentation

2.       Prepare for changing weather patterns by understanding and increasing the efficiency/reducing downtime of renewable energy infrastructure on PEI

3.       Improve knowledge sharing of climate change and adaptation by creating a public website to share data from the climate monitoring facility as well as similar units that have been placed throughout the island

August 12, 2020
WEICan presented at IEEE PES meeting
WEICan's Eldrich Rebello presented WEICan's work in analyzing a 10 MW wind farm providing secondary frequency regulation at the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting in August... More >

July 22, 2020
WEICan hires two summer students
WEICan is pleased to have two students working as Wind Systems Technical Interns this... More >

June 23, 2020
WEICan Shows Using Wind Turbines for Frequency Regulation is Possible and Can Be Profitable
The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) demonstrates that wind turbines are technically able to perform secondary frequency regulation with the potential for financial profit for the wind farm... More >

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