FACTBOX: Canadian wind energy companies

(Reuters) - Executives from Canadian and global wind energy companies are meeting in Toronto this week at the annual Canadian Wind Energy Association conference.

Following are some of the main Canadian companies in the sector, and their biggest wind operations and projects:

* Canadian Hydro Developers Inc owns Canada's two largest wind installations. These are the Melancthon EcoPower Center near Shelburne, Ontario, which has capacity of 199.5 megawatts, and the Wolfe Island EcoPower Center, which has a capacity of 197.8 MW and is located near Kingston, Ontario.

* Innergex Renewable Energy Inc operates the 109.5 MW Carleton wind farm in Quebec, which reached commercial start up in 2008. It has several wind projects under development.

* Boralex Inc finalized financing this month for the construction of its Thames River wind farm in Ontario, which will have total installed capacity of 40 MW.

* NaiKun Wind Energy Corp is developing Canada's first offshore wind farm off the northwest coast of British Columbia. In August it announced that a native Indian group plans to buy a 40 percent stake in the Pacific Ocean project.

* AltaGas Income Trust launched its first wind farm in August, the 102 MW Bear Mountain Wind Park located near Dawson Creek, British Columbia. It is the first wind facility in B.C. to feed power to the grid. Once fully built out later this year it will provide electricity to about 31,000 homes.

* Western Wind Energy Corp produces 34 MW of energy from two wind farms in California.

Source: company websites

(Reporting by Nicole Mordant; editing by Rob Wilson)