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Hydro-Qu茅bec's first "mega" wind farm will be built in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. The state-owned company is due to make the announcement on Wednesday. The project, which will be the second largest in the world, will cover an area 13 times the size of the island of Montreal. ()听

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Fran莽ois Bouffard, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering聽

鈥淭his is an ambitious project, which, primarily because of its scale, brings together First Nations, local government and Hydro-Qu茅bec. This is also a project that will be able to capitalize from recent bulk transmission investments made by Hydro-Qu茅bec in the last decade, which saw the construction of the Chamouchouane-Bout-de-l鈥櫭甽e line. This line will be a prime asset in bringing wind energy to consumers in the Greater Montreal Area. Once fully online, this investment will also bring important operational challenges to Hydro-Qu茅bec, as the corporation will now have to manage this major source of variable power on its network.鈥澛�

Fran莽ois Bouffard is an Associate Professor and a William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in power system economics, reliability, control and optimization. Secondary skills and interests include operations research, data science, mixed-integer and stochastic optimization techniques for power system operation and planning.聽

francois.bouffard [at] mcgill.ca聽(English, French)听