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Turbines down while Hydro One completes grid work

June 17, 2015

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MCLEANS MOUNTAIN—The 24-turbine Northland Power wind farm atop McLean’s Mountain has been still as of late but the wind farm manager assures the public that all is well with the massive turbines.

“Hydro One is doing servicing on the hydro grid and while they bring it up to speed, the turbines are offline for production,” Northland Power manager Rick Martin told The Expositor. “It (the interruption) has been scheduled for a year.”

The turbines are expected to be spinning again by the end of this month.

He noted that the turbines also went through their annual inspection last week, which took two to three days. “We did it in parallel with the Hydro One servicing.”

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Alicia McCutcheon

Alicia McCutcheon has served as editor-in-chief of The Manitoulin Expositor and The Manitoulin West Recorder since 2011. She grew up in the newspaper business and earned an Honours B.A. in communications from Laurentian University, Sudbury, also achieving a graduate certificate in journalism, with distinction, from Cambrian College. Ms. McCutcheon has received peer recognition for her writing, particularly on the social consequences of the Native residential school program. She manages a staff of four writers from her office at The Manitoulin Expositor in Little Current.