Wind Heat North is a husband-and-wife business that incorporated in 2023 to from agreements with other organisations interested in advancing the development of wind and energy storage projects in the North. Their primary business is installing and operating wind monitoring towers in remote communities from Alaska to Nunavut. WHN also analyses wind data and uses village energy modelling tools to evaluate optimum wind scales to match the community’s use of electricity, space heating and transportation.
WHN has a combined 60 years of experience working, advocating, and intervening in the Yukon’s energy and utility sector. WHN has operated wind monitoring stations in over 60 locations over the past 30 years. WHN advocates for wind and storage development and has started several initiatives including the North Energy Innovation at the Yukon University, the Kluane Lake Wind Project, and the Whitehorse electric heat storage project.
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we recognize all Nations who live, work and play on this land and honour and celebrate this territory.
