Feds announces more than $192 million for Nova Scotia clean energy projects

Federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has announced much than $192 cardinal for six cleanable power projects successful Nova Scotia.

Wilkinson says $117.6 cardinal will thief pinch nan installation of 3 50-megawatt artillery retention systems to beryllium operated by Nova Scotia Power Inc. successful Bridgewater, N.S., Spider Lake, N.S., and White Rock, N.S.

The curate says nan backing builds connected nan $138.2-million indebtedness announced for nan artillery retention projects by nan Canada Infrastructure Bank successful February.

As well, Wilkinson says 3 upwind workplace projects will get $25 cardinal each from Ottawa’s $4.5-billion Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways Program.

That money is to assistance nan upwind power projects adjacent Windsor, N.S., Higgins Mountain, N.S., and Wedgeport, N.S.

Wilkinson says nan national authorities wants to assistance Nova Scotia successful electrifying its system to meet nan province’s extremity of getting disconnected ember by 2030.

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