Photo: Nunavik’s only wind turbine keeps turning

As of March 1, 2015 the new three megawatt wind turbine operating just outside the site of Glencore’s Raglan Mine in Nunavik has saved the mine site 902,000 litres of diesel since it first went into operation last fall — and stopped for only four days due to extreme cold. But the addition of the project’s 1.8 megawatt energy storage system has been delayed, Glencore says, due to damage to equipment being transported to the site. The company said construction should start on coupling the wind storage system this summer, to be completed by fall 2015. (PHOTO COURTESY OF TUGLIQ ENERGY)