We've been very pleased and excited with the amount of interest that has been generated for our alternative electricity supply in Nova Scotia. As some of you may be aware, we have only had one option for electricity in Nova Scotia for I think 30 years or so now. As a result, there's a lot of interest in having alternatives, both cleaner alternatives, alternatives that don't involve fossil fuels and primarily coal generation, which is the major source, and to have local and cost-stable solutions, solutions people can count on the price of in the future.
As the member noted, we have had significant interest from all sorts of different industries. That includes municipalities that are near the Mersey River wind farm, including the region of Queens, the Town of Bridgewater and the City of Halifax. We have had thousands of individuals sign up to buy power from us and a range of over 30 commercial entities throughout the province, in every federal riding in Nova Scotia.
We're very pleased with the uptake and the level of interest. The energy sector in Nova Scotia is quite busy. There's a lot going on, as noted previously, with other projects, so it hasn't always been easy for us to distinguish ourselves from the other work that's going on in Nova Scotia for both electricity and other energy projects. To that end, we are very pleased to have been able to announce that the financing of the project has been arranged. That has played a significant role in increasing the level of interest in our retail electricity offering.