The provincial utility did not set a new deadline for submission of bids.

The country’s wind industry took the news in stride. “It’s a temporary delay. The RFP is still going ahead,” Canadian Wind Energy Association regional director for Quebec Jean-Frederick Legendre tells Recharge, adding he believes that developers will finish construction of projects on time.

Last December, the utility set a 1 December 2016 deadline for the initial 100MW of installation, with the balance due in commercial operation on 1 December 2017.

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