Ontario’s Solar Energy Industry Creating Jobs

By On December 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Ontario is quickly becoming a global leader in the clean energy economy, while building a clean, modern and reliable electricity system for our children and grandchildren.

Speaking to more than 5,000 delegates from across Canada and around the world at the annual Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA) conference today, Energy Minister Chris Bentley reinforced our [...]

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Red flags on green energy

By On February 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

February 17, 2011- Toronto, ON.  This is an interesting article on the environmental effects of green energy by Dr. Jatin Nathwani from the University of Waterloo. 

At this point, there should be no debate that a transition to a sustainable electricity system is a necessary development for Ontario.  However, this is likely where any [...]

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New Business Network Strengthens Ontario’s Solar FIT And microFIT Program

By On November 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

TORONTO, Nov 05, 2010 — Ontario Solar Network kicked off its membership campaign on October 28 with an event that connected over 120 stakeholders in the province’s fast-growing solar business community. The Network explained the essential benefits of membership for businesses and professionals in the solar industry and for those seeking to engage in this [...]

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Ontario’s Booming Solar Industry Experiences Growing Pains with Price Adjustment

By On August 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

After weeks of feedback from solar stakeholders throughout the province, the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) announced that the price adjustment — from 80.2 to 64.2 cents/kWH — for small-scale, ground-mounted feed-in-tariff (microFIT) projects will only affect applications sent after July 2. The announcement was welcome news to the 10,000+ applicants who had already committed significant [...]

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Reaction to Ontario’s microFIT Tariff Rate Cuts

By On July 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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.

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Canadian Solar Announces Intention to Build Solar Panel Manufacturing Facility in Ontario

By On December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Two year, C$24 million investment in the province is expected to result in 500 new direct manufacturing jobs and annual capacity to supply electricity to 60,000 homes.

 

KITCHENER, Canada, Dec. 3, 2009 — Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ), a leading vertically integrated provider of solar cells, solar module, custom-designed solar application products and turnkey [...]

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