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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

May 3, 2023
Karen Kinch Retires after 35 years at WEICan
Karen Kinch, Manager of Administration, retired after 35 years of service at the Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan, formerly Atlantic Wind Test Site (AWTS).... More >

March 14, 2023
WEICan featured in Saltwire article
Saltwire interviewed WEICan CEO, Scott Harper in an article discussing Atlantic Canada's wind... More >

January 12, 2023
WEICan collaborates with ExxonMobil to test Next Generation Wind Turbine Lubricants
WEICan is excited to be collaborating with ExxonMobil to test their next generation of wind turbine lubricants in our wind turbines. See here for ExxonMobil's recent article and video describing the... More >

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