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Capital Power — Corporate Update (May 2014)
22 slides from Capital Power's corporate update, May 27, 2014
Slide 1: Port Dover and Nanticoke Wind Project Community Liaison Committee Meeting #4
Port Dover and Nanticoke Wind Project Community Liaison Committee Meeting #4 May 27, 2014 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fisherville Community Hall Fisherville, Ontario
Slide 2: Agenda
Agenda • Come to Order • Greetings, Introductions • Regrets, Attendance • Minutes of Last Meeting • PDN Operations – Update • Post construction monitoring – Birds, Bats, Amphibians • Post construction monitoring – Acoustic • General Inquiries • Committee Feedback/Discussion • Next Steps 2
Slide 3: Port Dover & Nanticoke Wind - Overview
Port Dover & Nanticoke Wind - Overview • 104.4 MW (nameplate capacity) wind farm on privately-owned leased lands in the Counties of Haldimand and Norfolk. • Generates power from 58 Vestas V-90 turbines. • Commercial operation began in November 2013 after a 14 month construction phase. • Capital Powe
Slide 4: Operations update
Operations update 4
Slide 5: Operations Update
Operations Update • Reliability and availability has surpassed expectations for the first quarter of 2014. • Lower winds than expected in April and May. Maintenance program • Three month service was completed at the end of April. • Six month service was started in April and will continue until June.
Slide 6: Reclamation activities
Reclamation activities • Site clean up and reclamation activities well underway, following delays due to rain. • Progress to date: • Completion of collector line system re-installation along Cheapside Road • Permanent traffic barriers installed • Completion of septic field (substation), except soil
Slide 7: Corporate
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Slide 8: REA Amendment Process
REA Amendment Process • Capital Power has submitted an amendment application to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for PDN’s REA (4 changes). • The changes are the result of detailed design and input from the construction team and consultation with landowners and Haldimand County staff: • Recon
Slide 9: Post-construction Wildlife Monitoring
Post-construction Wildlife Monitoring • Mortality Monitoring • Tundra Swans – March • Bird & Bat mortality monitoring – May - October • Raptors – May - November • Disturbance Monitoring • Tundra Swans (Foraging and staging) – March • Nesting Bald Eagles – March onwards • Breeding Amphibians – April
Slide 10: Mortality Monitoring
Mortality Monitoring Tundra Swans: COMPLETED • All turbines monitored once weekly through the core migration period for swans (March- early April) • 4 surveys completed Bird (including raptors) & bat mortality monitoring – IN PROGRESS • 20 turbines (1/3 of the project) searched twice weekly; May- Oc
Slide 11: Disturbance Monitoring
Disturbance Monitoring Tundra Swans: COMPLETED • Foraging and staging surveys completed twice-weekly through core migration season (March- early April) • Location, numbers and behaviour of swans recorded Bald Eagle Behavioural Monitoring– IN PROGRESS • Bald Eagle nest surveyed every 2 weeks from Mar
Slide 12: Disturbance Monitoring
Disturbance Monitoring Amphibians: IN PROGRESS • 1x in each of April, May and June in accordance with Marsh Monitoring Protocols • Conducted at sites identified as significant amphibian breeding habitat through the preconstruction field work program • Species and abundances recorded Breeding Bird Su
Slide 13: Analysis of Results
Analysis of Results Mortality • any fatality of a species at risk to be reported to MNR within 24 of identification • Any occurrence of observed mortality during a single monitoring event of 10 or more birds at one turbine or 33 or more birds at multiple turbines to be reported to MNR within 48 hour
Slide 14: Adaptive Management Plan
Adaptive Management Plan Contingency measures and/or additional mitigation measures to be put into place in the case of: • Mortality • 10 bats/turbine/year • 14 birds/turbine/year • 0.2 raptors/turbine/year (0.1 raptors of conservation concern) • Disturbance • Significant ecological effects observed
Slide 15: CLC Member Discussion
CLC Member Discussion 15
Slide 16: Aercoustics Engineering Limited: Acoustics
aercoustics engineering limited , Acoustics Noise Vibration
Slide 17: The road to environmental compliance
The road to environmental compliance • Two (2) acoustic audit clauses for wind farms • Immission (at the point of reception) • Undertaken in accordance with Part D of the Compliance Protocol for Wind • The acoustic audit measurements for PDN will be completed on two (2) separate occasions within a p
Slide 18: Receptor measurement details
Receptor measurement details • Conducted at three (3) locations at PDN. • Locations chosen with predicted levels closest to the limit (i.e. auditing worst-case receptors) • Measurement during night-time (10pm to 5am) • Data set • Between at least 4-7m/s (10m height). Each bin (+/- 0.5m/s). • 120 one
Slide 19: IEC-61400-11
IEC-61400-11 • Measured approx. 140m away from turbine • In addition to acoustic data, turbine operational information and weather data is logged • Wind Speeds between approx. 7-13 m/s (at hub height) • At least 10 data points for Turbine ON in each wind bin (0.5m/s wide) • At least 10 data points f
Slide 20: Transformer audit
transformer audit • Emission (transformer sound power level) undertaken in accordance with IEEE C57.12.90 • Immission (near receptor) undertaken in accordance with MOE publication NPC-103 • Unit has a sound power level limit of 95 dBA and sound pressure level limit of 40 dBA at receptor • Audit resu
Slide 21: Thank you
thank you Comments or Questions?
Slide 22: Contact Information
Contact Information Herb Shields CLC Chair & Facilitator Stantec Consulting Ltd. 519-836-6050 Ext. 243 Herb.Shields@stantec.com Capital Power 1-855-703-5005 PDN@capitalpower.com www.capitalpower.com 16