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23 Mar 2009 / 12:38 pm
Solar-power feed tariffs windfall for homeowners
Solar-power feed tariffs windfall for homeowners
Mar 23, 2009 04:30 AM
Comments on this story (20)
Tyler Hamilton
Ontario’s power authority has proposed paying 80.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour it buys from a residential rooftop solar system.
That’s rich. It amounts to an 82 per cent increase over the previous rate offered under the province’s standard offer program, which was launched two years ago but failed to stimulate large-scale deployment of rooftop systems that was envisioned.
This time the government is more serious about driving demand. The ambitious aim is to see 100,000 solar rooftop systems deployed across the province as a result of the newly proposed rate, which is called an advanced feed-in tariff.
Link to the complete Toronto Star Article
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25 Nov 2008 / 11:31 am
OurPower.ca - Community Power Update - Nov/08
1. Community Solar Projects In The GTA
It would take another email to go through all the updates and exciting things that have been happening with community solar projects in and around the GTA. Click here to review the one-page report!
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31 Aug 2007 / 1:09 pm
Solar Domestic Hot Water in Canada
Natural Resources Canada, through the ecoENERGY for Renewable Heat Program, has developed a $9 Million residential pilot project and will allow local gas & electric utilities, homebuilders, municipalities, etc. to encourage the deployment of solar domestic hot water systems in homes across Canada. The federal department is currently accepting proposals until September 28, 2007 which aim to install at least 200 solar hot water heating units into single family, townhouses and semi detached homes.
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25 Jun 2007 / 3:10 pm
Schools to Power Rooftops
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Toronto schools to power up rooftops; School board could sell electricity generated from solar panels, windmills to power grid
The Toronto Star
Mon 25 Jun 2007
Page: A06
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25 Jun 2007 / 10:34 am
Basking in the Rays - Tyler Hamilton
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/228987
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Solar energy continues to gain steam
TheStar.com - Business - Solar energy continues to gain steam
June 25, 2007
Tyler Hamilton
Energy reporter
Solar technologies are getting their day in the sun in Ontario, and the companies behind them are basking in the rays.
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19 Jun 2007 / 1:28 pm
No Property Tax Penalties for Renewables
MCGUINTY GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES CLEAN ENERGY PRODUCTION
Fair and Predictable Property Taxes Benefit Ontarians
QUEENS PARK ─ The Ontario government today announced a new, more equitable property tax assessment for privately operated windmills.
“We want to ensure that the property assessment system doesn’t deter homeowners or farmers from taking steps to supply their own clean energy,” said Minister of Finance Greg Sorbara. “That’s why we’ve developed a new assessment policy for residential and farm properties with wind turbine towers.”
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01 Mar 2007 / 3:21 pm
Installing solar in the winter? In Toronto?
solar installation in the winter
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25 Feb 2007 / 10:52 pm
Credibility in the Marketplace
Where in the world of black and white (& green) does grey fit in?
Many companies are beginning to see the market potential of the new, earth conscious consumer. Some are making sure they look right by offering some “green” products in their line up of goods and services. How should a consumer feel if 5% of company x’s offerings are sustainable products but the other 95% don’t apply. Should this be perceived as a step in the right direction or hypocrisy? How can one judge whether or not the company plans to increase the green percentage or wants to cash in on an eager market?
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25 Feb 2007 / 9:51 pm
sustainability_definition
The ability to provide for the needs of the world’s current population without damaging the ability of future generations to provide for themselves. When a process is sustainable, it can be carried out over and over without negative environmental effects or impossibly high costs to anyone involved.
Source: SustainableTable.Org
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23 Feb 2007 / 3:44 pm
NY Times article about California’s success in cutting energy consumption
February 23, 2007
Op-Ed Columnist
Colorless Green Ideas
By PAUL KRUGMAN
The factual debate about whether global warming is real is, or at least should be, over. The question now is what to do about it.
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22 Jan 2007 / 8:48 pm
Jan 29th 2007 Solar Hot Water public meeting
Greetings Solar Enthusiasts and Happy 2007!
We enter the New Year in Toronto from the warmest December on record, a month characterized by balmy days, rain showers and the lowest snowfall this city has ever seen.
And so it is with great enthusiasm that Toronto Green Comunity invites you all to attend a SOLAR WATER HEATING ORGANIZING MEETING
Monday January 29, 2007 at 7:00 pm at
Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd, Room 224.
This meeting is a follow-up to our earlier meetings of last fall that introduced the concepts of energy conservation, renewable energy and the specifics of solar water heating.
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17 Jan 2007 / 9:00 pm
Community Action on Climate Change
Are you worried about climate change?
Please join us to discuss what we can do as individuals and as a community to help protect our environment. Bring your ideas, concerns, interests, experience, creativity, energy and community spirit, and meet some of your neighbours. Together we can make a difference!
Date: Monday, February 5, 2007
Time: 7:00-9:00 pm
Place: 747 St. Clair Ave. W. (south side of St. Clair, just west of Rushton, enter through Joe Mihevc’s office)
For more information, contact
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24 Nov 2006 / 3:23 pm
Solar PV Tech Checklist
Solar Panels are more useful than Granite Counter Tops
When it comes to home improvements the usefulness of an item is often understated. For example, when was the last time someone commented on how beautiful the roof of your house is, or how efficiently the pluming works? You are more likely to receive kudos for your paint choice or granite counter-top. When considerinng the investment in PV - which is a great technology in my view - use this checklist to ensure that you are investing in a solution that will work for you.
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13 Nov 2006 / 9:21 am
small voices BIG consequences
Having seen An Inconvenient Truth, The End of Suburbia and Manufactured Landscapes I cannot understand how Canadians continue to super-consume and mega-pollute. I understand from this film and scientific sources that Humans are reaching a critical relationship with the planet. If you are inspired to action, please seek out and contact like-minded individuals. Add your small voice to the BIG world of global (and Local) change. If you haven’t seen these movies, I strongly urge you to go see them by whatever inconvenient means possible.
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11 Nov 2006 / 1:26 pm
The Future Looks Green
This is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Chopik, published in the Parkdale Liberty Gleaner in April 2006. Click here to read the complete article. http://parkdaleliberty.ca/archives/109
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All this earth-friendly coalition-building comes as no surprise to Amanda Mongeon of One Tonne Toronto. The government organization dedicated to reducing greenhouse gas emissions has seen what is happening in the Roncesvalles area and is focusing its efforts there.
The neighbourhood boasts a combination of affluent, educated homeowners and a majority of homes over 60 years old that are ripe for energy efficiency retrofits.
Geoffrey Ave. resident Huntly Duff and his family are exactly the kind of people Mongeon is targeting. Last month they replaced their old furnace and hot-water heater with with a single wall-hung high efficiency furnace, which works in conjunction with solar hot water panels to reduce their energy consumption significantly.
“We thought it important to do more than talk about the air quality and energy issues facing society,” says Duff, a 17-year area resident. Initial estimates are that 60 per cent of the Duff’s annual domestic hot water needs will be met with the solar solution.
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