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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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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,
In the fall of 2009 many Ontario developers rushed to submit applications hoping to gain approval for a limited number of 10 MW solar projects that would be able to fit within the estimated 4,000 MW of available capacity on the Ontario grid. Despite an abundance of applications there still appears to be several isolated [...]
