For the last 30 years, the Canadian Rockies International Airport in British Columbia has been gathering data to prove that the region has one of the highest solar intensities in all of Canada.
Sun Edison has announced today that it is partnering with the electronic manufacturing facility Flextronics to begin constructing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Ontario, Canada. The manufacturing partnership was made to help Canada’s York region fulfill product demand for its new feed-intariff program (FIT) — the first such electricity pricing structure in North America.
As we’ve noted on this blog before, the apt phrase for the renewable energy industries is not, “If you build it, they will come,” but rather, “If you subsidize it, they will build it.” Such is the case of Ontario, Canada, which is seeing a boom in solar energy-related activity since putting in place a [...]
