Carbon Neutral

400. Net-zero pioneer Landmark is building homes in Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community

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Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 4 By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Landmark, a net-zero trailblazer …

Blatchford, the largest planned carbon neutral community takes flight

397. Blatchford, the Largest Planned Carbon Neutral Community in North America is “Wildly Ambitious”

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Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 1  By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Blatchford is the largest …

Solar in Every Town

393. Solar in Every Town – A solution for an affordable 100% renewable grid

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca The solution to building a 100% renewable, affordable and resilient electricity …

FUSE Power Management seeks to create virtual power plants using electric buses.

390. Electric Bus Virtual Power Plants – It’s happening

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca It sounds like a futuristic scenario. During the day electric school …

Energy Innovation Challenge winners

388. Energy Innovation Challenge winners will pilot solutions for integrating solar, wind, batteries, and EVs into Medicine Hat’s grid

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PART 2 IN OUR SERIES ON THE ENERGY INNOVATION CHALLENGE – SEE PART 1 HERE …

How to integrate millions of solar & wind farms, batteries and EVs into our outdated 20th Century Grid

387. How to integrate millions of solar, wind, & battery systems & EVs into our outdated 20th Century Electricity Grids

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca It’s a ticking time bomb – how do we integrate millions …

Virtual Power Plants

383. Virtual Power Plants – make money, save the grid

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca A Virtual Power Plant is simply a network of distributed energy …

Summerside from no energy to the leader in renewable energy

377. Summerside the little city with no energy now leads Canada in renewable energy

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca In just one decade Summerside, Prince Edward Island has become the …

Alberta's new renewable energy rules

373. Alberta’s new renewable energy rules – a red tape solution in search of a problem

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Alberta lifted its six-month moratorium on renewable energy projects, but some …

Energy storage saves money helps get to net-zero

365. Deploy energy storage save $600 million, get to net-zero

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca At the Decentralised Energy Conference in November, Robert Tremblay of Energy …

Decentralised Energy Canada turns 20

364. Decentralised Energy Canada turns 20 – Interview with founder Anouk Kendall

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca I first met Anouk Kendall back in 2011 when she worked …

Red Deer Energy Innovation Fair

360. Red Deer’s Renewable Energy Fair reincarnated as the Energy Innovation Fair

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Green Energy Futures · 360. Red Deer Energy Innovation Fair is back! By David Dodge, …

Coal is going, going, gone

306. Alberta Electricity – King Coal is Gone – Now for the Hard Part, Getting to Net-zero

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Alberta will mark the end of an era in 2023 when …

Rigs to Renewables

303. Rigs to Renewables – How An Oil and Gas Guy Got Involved With ENEON & Forever Energy

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Jason Beacock works for a new kind of company. The company’s …

Marc André of DCBEL

295. Ring that DCBEL – A revolutionary fast EV charger and solar inverter for the home

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca What if you could install a device in your home that …

Renewable Energy Hub

288. Renewable Energy Hub – Integrating solar, batteries, electric vehicles and hydrogen

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By David Dodge Is it better to focus on solar, battery storage, electric vehicles, or …

Recycling batteries

275. What to do with the mounting heap of spent lithium-ion batteries – Recycle them!

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By David Dodge Lithium-ion batteries have been the secret sauce fueling the explosion of super …

Ed Ma with solar thermal on his home

223. Solar Thermal Home still cool after all these years

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Calgary’s Ed Ma built an ultra-efficient solar-thermal-heated home way …

Les Wold with office1

218. Effect Homes office goes off-grid in the big city

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 By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Effect Homes, a local leader in building net-zero, …

Devashish Paul CEO of BluWave AI

201. Summerside a “living lab” for ultimate smart grid

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Summerside PEI already has among the highest integration rates for wind energy in North America – now they are working with BluWave AI to use artificial intelligence to use more renewable energy.