Tag: solar
*Solar Idol Contest: April-June 2012
Lights, Camera…Action! The *Solar Idol Contest launches in Ontario!
Burlington: Our Energy Future
HHEAT Building Community Power Co-operatively Workshop in Burlington!
THE HHEAT 3rd and final introductory workshop will be part of the Burlington Green’s AGM.
Building Community Power Co-operatively
The Hamilton Halton Energy Awareness Team (HHEAT) presents Building Community Power Co-operatively!
Free Solar Thermal GreenTech Webinar
Kingspan Solar Inc. will provide an overview of solar thermal hot water heating and their evacuated tube collector Thermomax. This will include how solar thermal works, typical applications, the business case for action and examples of local installations.
Ontario's Green Energy Act Shines Bright for Solar Industry
The Canadian Solar Industries Association voiced its support for the Ontario Government’s new Green Energy Act noting the strides that would be made for the province as an international leader. “The proposed changes announced as part of this Act will certainly help build a new clean economy, green collar jobs, as well as creating [...]
Smart grid needed for green power
The province’s power authority has agreed to buy electricity from 262 newly built or proposed renewable energy projects that together will add more than 1,000 megawatts of capacity to the Ontario grid. A lion’s share of this energy will come from wind and solar farms taking part in the province’s standard offer program, which pays [...]
STEP: Sustainable Technology Education Project
At the University of Waterloo, there is a group of students who understand that green energy is going to play an integral part in the world’s energy mix throughout the 21st century. The Sustainable Technology Education Project, through demonstration and education, is working actively to promote green energy and sustainable development to a wide audience. [...]
Sault Ste. Marie Set to Become a Solar City
Sault Ste Marie is poised to become home to one of Ontario’s largest solar farms, thanks to the latest contracts signed under the province’s Standard Offer Program. Already a significant solar project comprised of two 10 MW phases when announced in September, plans for the Sault project now include six phases that would contribute 60 [...]
Ontario goes solar
The Ontario government has given approval for a California company to construct a massive solar “farm” near Sarnia that will blanket an area larger than all three Toronto islands with hundreds of thousands of sun-soaking panels. Read the full article… Related articles Ontario Struggles with Solar Boom (technologyreview.com) Solar power interest grows in Ontario (cbc.ca) [...]
Tapping sun for water heat
Lost in the hype over solar electricity is the fact there are much easier ways to capture and use the sun’s ample energy.
