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Panasonic Eco Solutions Canada to Supply New Domestic Solar Photovoltaic Panels Manufactured in Ontario by Celestica

rschuster — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:23:42 +0000

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, May 09, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Panasonic Eco Solutions Canada Inc., a new affiliate of Panasonic Corporation of North America, has been established to deliver end-to-end energy solutions for the design, implementation and financing of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Canada. The new Mississauga-based company is able to provide enterprise [...]

Sustainable Energy Technologies to Produce Ontario’s First Factory-Built PV Systems

rschuster — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:11:50 +0000

Sustainable Energy Technologies has announced it aims to reduce design and on-site labour costs by 90% by producing Ontario’s first factory-constructed solar systems. The product will be available through ProFab Solar only, a subsidiary of the partnership between Sustainable Energy and Steeltree Structures. The new systems also claim to offer project developers a reduction in [...]

Sentinel Solar Corp. Continues to Expand in Ontario

rschuster — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:03:04 +0000

Sentinel Solar Corp., one of Ontario’s leading solar distributors announced today it is expanding its product offering to better supply the needs of its customers. Sentinel has signed an agreement with Eclipsall to supply PV modules in 2012. “As we continue to grow our dealer network across Ontario, and with increased demand for high output [...]

Scrap wind turbine content rules, GE urges

mfgormaly — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:21:24 +0000

Richard Blackwell, Globe and Mail, October 11, 2011

One of Canada’s biggest suppliers of wind turbines says content requirements that force companies to make renewable energy equipment in local plants are counterproductive and should be eliminated.

Simon Olivier, general manager of sales for General Electric Canadian renewable energy business said in an interview that the [...]

Red flags on green energy

drichardson — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:32:40 +0000

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 [...]

Canada and the Cleantech 100

drichardson — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:10:26 +0000

Toronto, October 26, 2010 – Two weeks ago the Cleantech Group, an American research and investment company focused on clean technology, released its list of the 100 most promising clean technology companies in the world (cleantech.com/GlobalCleantech100.cfm). North America placed a whopping 57 countries on the list; however, only two of those 57 companies [...]

Glen Murray, Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation, to speak at CleanTech North Event

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 04:04:37 +0000

Toronto, ON – September 22, 2010 Glen Murray, Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation, will speak at CleanTech North’s (CTN) flagship annual event this year titled “Taking Cleantech Global” to be held on the morning of November 3 at MaRS. Mindfirst President and CTN Executive Director Henry Vehovec was thrilled with the announcement, “Helping Canadian [...]

PharmaTrust MedCentres Labelled as Game-Changing Technology by CNN

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:06 +0000

BusinessWire · Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010

PharmaTrust MedCentres were dubbed this weekend as an industry-changing technology by CNN’s editorial producer Nadia Bilchik in her segment on stories happening overseas. The segment, which aired on Sunday, August 22nd, explained that the MedCentres would impact the pharmacy industry in a similar way that ATM machines changed the banking [...]

20 MW Amherstburg Solar Project Sold to Macquarie Power & Infrastructure Income Fund (MPT)

Henry Vehovec — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:56:52 +0000

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 in Ontario, to be designed, [...]

Reaction to Ontario’s microFIT Tariff Rate Cuts

Henry Vehovec — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:22:48 +0000

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 [...]