Renewable energy in Canada Renewable energy in Canada The majority of the energy supply in Canada is generated by renewable technologies. The country generates the majority of its electricity from hydroelectric dams (59% in 2006). Wind power is a fast growing sector of the energy market. Globally, Canada was the 6th largest producer of wind power in 2011. Canada has built many photovoltaic power plants, mainly in Ontario, with one in Sarnia being the largest in the world at the time of construction. A 15-megawatt tidal plant sits at Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and uses the daily tides of the Bay of Fundy. Politicians have
The Tides of Manaunaun The Tides of Manaunaun The Tides of Manaunaun is a short piano piece in B minor by American composer Henry Cowell (1897–1965). It premiered publicly in 1917, serving as a prelude to a theatrical production, "The Building of Banba". "The Tides of Manaunaun" is the best known of Cowell's many tone cluster pieces. "The Building of Banba", for which "The Tides of Manaunaun" was composed, was based on Irish mythological poems by the theosophist John Osborne Varian. "The Building of Banba" has been described by some scholars as a "pageant" or "play", and by Cowell himself (more than fifty years