Nova Scotia designates offshore areas for wind development in “Wind West” scheme

For context, in this release Nova Scotia is talking about up to five gigawatts of nameplate power generation. That’s 5,000 megawatts. The entire SaskPower grid has a nameplate capacity of 5,973 megawatts, although the record it has ever produced was 3,910 megawatts. Nova Scotia is effectively proposing building the equivalent of almost the entire Saskatchewan grid with wind.