Canadian Solar Inc is selling its 10MW AC GoldLight solar power plant at Georgina in Ontario, to an affiliate of DIF Infrastructure III. The plant is valued at more than 68 million Canadian dollars and uses about 46,800 CSX6-300|305|310P panels produced by Canadian Solar. Goldlight project began commercial operation on January 30 and is to […]
Sheerness#2 went offline at 01:11 Saturday, Battle River#4 came back online at 07:31 Saturday. The International Energy Agency’s Photovoltaic Power System Program IEA PVPS published its new Snapshot report on March 30th, 2015. At least 177 GW of PV capacity are now installed worldwide, while in 2014, 38.7 GW of PV capacity were installed in […]
HR Milner came back online at 08:00 yesterday morning. Hay River will let its deal with Northland expire in November 2016. In the meantime, the town’s legal team is putting together a request for proposals. It hopes a competitive bidding process will drive down the price of power for residents struggling to meet the cost […]
Battle River#3 came back online at 01:01 and Battle River#4 went offline at 04:36 both this morning. Chatham-Kent, Samsung, and Pattern Energy have officially signed an agreement for the North Kent Wind Project in Ontario. North Kent 1 would place approximately 40 to 50 wind turbines on private lands in both of the former Dover […]
On March 17, 2015 Justice Erb of the Court of Queen’s Bench issued a Memorandum of Decision with respect to whether certain records of TransAlta Corporation should continue to be withheld from the MSA because of TransAlta’s claim that they were protected by litigation privilege. After completing a document by document review, Justice Erb ruled […]
HR Milner went offline at 13:20 Friday, Battle River#5 went offline at 16:00, and Keephills #2 went offline at 21:00 Friday. Canada’s first concentrated solar 1MW thermal plant is opening up in Medicine Hat making this the most northern-based concentrated solar thermal plant and also one of the smallest ones out there. Medicine Hat began […]
An effort to undo decades of unfair pricing of electricity for thousands of commercial businesses in New Brunswick may power down, just a month before scheduled hearings into the issue were to begin. In November, the Energy and Utilities Board scheduled a long-delayed hearing for April into NB Power’s practice of overcharging some customers and […]
MacKay River went offline at 20:28 last night. The first phase of Genalta Power Inc.’s Three Creeks Project, an electrical power generating facility that’s part of the Peace River Power Centre, in conjunction with Baytex Energy Corp., has been completed. The facility is located near Baytex’s Three Creeks Field east of Peace River. The new […]
A rare G4, “severe” geomagnetic storm, is underway. It has the potential to disrupt radio transmission signals, cause problems with the electrical grid and have a range of other possibly costly impacts. The event, which is just one notch below the highest category of solar storm, began at about 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, according […]
Keephills#3 came back online at 12:32 yesterday; Keephills#1 came back online at 03:17 but back offline at 04:31 this morning. The wind forecast for today is not available for update. Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. celebrated the official opening of its renewable natural gas facility, the largest of its kind in Canada and one of the […]
