Canada's Cutting-Edge Energy Model ; Prince Edward Island Aims to Generate 30 Percent of Its Energy Needs from Its Own Renewable Resources by 2016

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If you want a glimpse of this province's energy future, drive the winding country roads to its eastern tip, take a left at the sign for the village of Elmira, and follow the red dirt track to the right.

You can't miss it.

Ten wind turbines stand along the trail, each 26 stories tall, with blades as long as 125 feet. When workers finish the last one this month, the new Eastern Kings Wind Farm will generate 30 megawatts of electricity - 7.5 percent of the province's power - by harnessing the strong winds that buffet the island's northern shore.

But more than an isolated project, the wind farm is part of an ambitious plan to enable Prince Edward Island (PEI) - …