Toronto, Canada – August 26, 2010 – In developing funding and growth strategies with clients and partners in recent months Mindfirst Inc. has noticed that market research and public awareness needs to be greatly enhanced in many areas if new technologies are going to be funded by investors and ultimately used by businesses and consumers. [...]
On August 12, 2010, SDTC issued a call to industry professionals requesting submissions of plans for their latest round of funding. The Application Deadline for this round is October 20, 2010. SDTC invests in a range of innovative solutions across all industries that address Climate Change, Clean Air, Water and Soil.
Further information is available at:
www.sdtc.ca/applications
Zoltan Tompa
Director [...]
The following article recently appeared in The Globe and Mail and the Sustainable Prosperity blog linked here.
A tool to meet the productivity challenge: carbon pricing
(July 9, 2010) ROGER MARTIN AND ALEXANDER WOOD
Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate [...]
10 MW Bavaria SolarPark, photo courtesy SunPower
MPT’s Amherstburg Solar Park will be built and operated by SunPower Corp, which has proven its crystalline solar PV technology around the world in projects such as the 10 MW Bavaria Solarpark, above. Photo courtesy of SunPower.
On June 23, 2010, MPT acquired a 20-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) power project [...]
Not unexpectedly there has been broad negative reaction within Ontario’s nascent solar industry following Ontario’s cutting of the microFIT rate. As usual, one of the clearest thinkers and commentators on the issue is Tyler Hamilton, whose column appears regularly in the Toronto Star. His July 19th article is quoted almost in its entirety below.
Readers of this [...]
Sun Edison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., announced on June 17 its purchase from TransAlsta of two ground-mount solar photovoltaic (PV) development projects in Ontario.
SunEdison will work with Hydro One, Greater Napanee officials, and the local community to begin construction on the RESOP project in early 2011. Under the terms of the sale, SunEdison acquired more [...]