Marmen Énergie, Invenergy, the Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est and Vestas have announced a wind tower supply contract for the Pohénégamook–Picard–Saint-Antonin–Wolastokuk (PPAW) Wind Energy Centre.
This contract ensures the relaunch of Marmen Énergie’s wind tower manufacturing activities in Matane, Quebec, Canada. Thanks to the PPAW contract, 100 jobs will be added to the twenty jobs that are still maintained at the Matane facility.
Selected by Hydro-Québec Distribution in 2023 as part of a call for tenders, the PPAW project will supply 350 MW of renewable energy to the Hydro-Québec grid by installing 56 Vestas V162-6.2 MW turbines on the ancestral territory of Wolastokuk and the Regional County Municipalities (RCM) of Rivière-du-Loup, Kamouraska, and Témiscouata. It is being developed in an equal partnership between Invenergy and the Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est and represents an investment of approximately $1 billion.
To ensure its commissioning in December 2026, the PPAW project plans to secure the necessary authorisations at the end of 2024, with construction scheduled to begin in 2025.
