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
Bay of Fundy Nova Scotia towns of Amherst, Parrsboro, Truro, Windsor, Wolfville, Annapolis Royal, and Digby are also on the bay. The Mi'kmaq, an Algonquian-speaking people, fished in the Bay of Fundy and lived in communities around the bay for centuries before the first Europeans arrived. The first European settlement was French, founded at Île-Saint-Croix, and then Port Royal, founded by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain in 1605. The village was the first permanent European settlement north of St. Augustine, Florida, which was founded by Spanish explorers. (Two years later, the English made their first permanent settlement in Jamestown,