Ontario’s first-ever wind blade manufacturing plant
New Wind Blade Plant Creates 900 Jobs In Tillsonburg Area
December 2, 2010
McGuinty Government Helping Build Ontario’s Clean Energy Economy
Ontario’s first-ever wind blade manufacturing plant will be setting up shop in Tillsonburg, bringing as many as 300 permanent clean energy jobs, and up to 600 additional construction and indirect service jobs to the region.
The Tillsonburg blade plant is part of a $7 billion investment by Samsung and its partners – the largest single investment in renewable energy in provincial history – and comes one day after the announcement of a new wind tower manufacturing plant in Windsor. The new plant is being built by Siemens Canada as part of its agreement to supply 600 megawatts (MW) of wind turbines to Samsung C&T and development partner Pattern Energy – 600 MW would be enough clean electricity each year to power more than 160,000 homes, or a city the size of Oakville.
Ontario’s clean energy plan is getting Ontario off dirty, smog-producing coal and on to cleaner energy sources like wind, solar and bio-energy. The plan is making Ontario a global clean energy leader, sparking a new industry and thousands of new, good jobs in Ontario. The plan also includes help for families, through the Ontario Clean Energy Benefit that will take 10 per cent off electricity bills every month.
QUICK FACTS
- Samsung and partners are investing $7 billion in Ontario to open four manufacturing plants, create 16,000 direct and indirect clean energy jobs and generate 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power.
- In the last year, over $9 billion in private sector investment, creating an estimated 20,000 new jobs, has been committed to clean energy projects in Ontario.
- In 2003, Ontario had 19 dirty polluting coal units and just 10 wind turbines; today, the province has over 700 wind turbines and by 2014 all coal units will be closed or converted to biomass or natural gas.
- Ontario is Canada’s leader in wind and solar capacity, home to the largest wind farms in Canada and currently home to the largest solar PV farm in the world.
- To date, more than 20 businesses have announced they are setting up or expanding plants to manufacture parts for the solar and wind industry, creating new jobs in Ontario.
LEARN MORE
- Read Building Our Clean Energy Future, Ontario’s updated long-term energy plan
- Learn more about renewable energy in Ontario.
- Find out how Ontario is phasing out coal-fired generation.
- Explore Ontario’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) and microFIT programs.
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