ROSSWAY — Change is in the wind.

Digby Neck is about to sprout 20 new wind turbines that will make enough electricity for 10,000 homes. That’s about 30 megawatts.

Scotian WindFields Inc., a Nova Scotia company, has partnered with Ontario’s SkyPower Corp. to operate Digby Wind Park, the project backers said Wednesday.

The joint venture partners have been given a 20-year contract by Nova Scotia Power, the purchasers of the electricity.

The 1,100-hectare wind park will be on leased private land.

The wind park will install new General Electric wind turbines through the summer of 2009 and be operational by the fall of next year.

Each machine will produce 1.5 megawatts and may be installed on either side of Highway 217 in the Rossway/Gullivers Cove area of Digby Neck, some 12 to 15 kilometres west of Digby, said Scotian WindFields president Barry Zwicker.

Other landowners may want to join in, Mr. Zwicker said. "We haven’t got a plan that shows you the distribution of turbines yet and the reason for that is that we’re still studying the wind."

The new partnership wants to place its turbines in the best locations on the land, he said...

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