AIM-listed Renewable Energy Generation, a windfarm operator and developer, has ordered a further 18 wind turbines for its Canadian wind farm projects and expects delivery in autumn 2008.

The company has other farms in the UK and Poland. But they are a fraction of the size of the estimated 2.5 GW that they could exploit in Canada - much easier to do since they acquired AIM Powergen Corp in August last year. There still isn't really much windpower in Canada - just under 800 megawatts in capacity in a country voluminous in empty space and plenty of hydropower to back it up. So REG looks strategically well placed in Canada.

And yet I think I've said it before, but couldn't someone have come up with a better name for the company than Renewable Energy Generation?

It's a bit like calling a computer company, the computer company. It makes it totally impossible to drown out the white noise of non-related information to the company on the internet - very important these days.