Bank Retrofits for Zero Impact TD Canada Trust is retrofitting a branch office in London Ontario to achieve Zero Impact from an electrical perspective. The bank already has a Zero Impact branch in Florida, but that branch was designed and built to spec. This will be their first Retrofit down to a net-zero level. Retrofits [...]
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Solar Powering Job Market According to a new report release October 17, 2011 by The Solar Foundation, as of August 2011 the USA has 100,237 people employed in solar jobs. This represents a 6.8% growth year-over-year, whereas the overall job growth for the country was a slim 0.7%. Highlights of the report include: - 100,237 [...]
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Largest Solar PV Facility in the World Goes Live Enbridge and First Solar Complete the Largest Photovoltaic Facility in the World October 4, 2010 Enbridge Inc. and First Solar, Inc. have achieved commercial operation of the 80-megawatt (MW) Sarnia Solar Project, making it the largest operating photovoltaic facility in the world. First Solar, a leading [...]
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Solar PV – Too Much of a Good Thing for Ontario In October 2009 the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) began accepting applications for their newly announce Feed-in Tariff (FiT). Within 2 months they had received 2,400 applications, and released their first 700 contract offers. Now, nine months later, the OPA has received over 14,000 applications [...]
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Solar Panel Installation Here are the steps we took to install my 3.6kW solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop system, with pictures. Overview of Solar PV System 3.6kW – 18 200 watt solar panels rooftop racking system combiner box with DC fuses SMA Sunny Boy 4kW Grid-tie Inverter Electrical meter faceplate and cutoff switch MC-4 cables and [...]
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Samsung and Ontario to Announce Solar and Wind Deal The Premier of Ontario is set to announce a multibillion dollar deal to a consortium led by Samsung Group to build renewable energy equipment including wind turbines and solar photovoltaic panels. The deal, which could be worth up to C$7 billion, will be unveiled on Thursday [...]
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DIY Solar Water Heater DIY solar projects including solar ovens, solar pool heaters, solar PV panels, solar air heaters and batch solar water heaters are fairly simple projects to complete on your own. We recently came across another solar water heater, non-batch, that we like. This project is a bit more involved and will require [...]
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OPA Issues 700 MicroFit Contracts for Solar Rooftops The Ontario Power Authority issued 700 contracts today (Dec 16) for MicroFit Solar PV systems. These solar installations will be paid 80.2 cents per kilowatt hour (kWH) for the next 20 years, for every kWh of power produced. The OPA started to accept contract applications on October [...]
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