The winners of the Decentralised Energy Canada – Medicine Hat Energy Innovation Challenge will pilot their solutions for the integration of electric vehicles, solar and wind power systems, batteries, and new electric appliances like heat pumps into the Medicine Hat, Alberta grid.
One of the big, often overlooked solutions to overhauling our electricity grid better to accommodate EVS, solar, wind and batteries is software, AI and smart grid technology. We talk to Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Siemens Grid Software about how we have to turn our thinking upside down to build the smart, reliable and resilient electricity grid that will have millions of distributed energy resources instead of just a few giant power plants.
The Energy Innovation Fair is back bigger and better than ever in Red Deer on Oct. 18-19. The theme is economic diversification and energy transition with a stellar line-up of speakers, panels, booths and demonstrations touching on solar, geothermal, advanced hydrocarbons, EVs and more.
The time is long overdue for the overhaul of our outdated 20th Century Electricity Grid to integrate millions of solar, wind, batteries, EVs and other decentralized energy resources. Decentralised Energy Canada and the City of Medicine Hat are running the Energy Innovation Challenge not just to integrated these distributed energy sources, but to make the grid more resilient and reliable.
Told solar wouldn’t work in their town in southern Alberta, Raymond installed solar everywhere and became the first municipality to reach net-zero electricity in Canada. Since then many have followed suit. This is their story.
Small towns and cities with neither the money, expertise or capacity to undertake energy efficiency or solar projects. The Municipal Climate Change Action Centre knows this so they helped 26 municipalities hire energy managers who are doing just that.
Not many people have heard of the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre in Alberta, but since 2009 they have worked with more than 150 municipalities helping them save $166 million by doing energy efficiency projects, installing solar and EV chargers and implementing climate resilience action plans.
Agrivoltaics, the idea of integrating farming with solar farms is helping farmers generate new sources of income, keep the family farm viable and keep the farm in the solar farm. We talk to Claude Mindorf an agrivoltaics solar developer and Shawn Morton who is farming a solar farm in Alberta.
Alberta burned it’s last lump of coal to produce electricity on June 16, 2024 at 10:57 pm. This represents the largest emissions reduction action in Canada. We look at what it all means and where Alberta goes from here in our interview with Scott MacDougall of the Pembina Institute.
This amazing Green Infill project has 16-units which replaced 2 single-family homes with tasteful townhome style Passive House homes that are super energy efficient and are providing desperately needed new affordable housing. We meet up with developers David and Melissa Campbell of Homestretch to get the low down.
The small City of Summerside PEI went from no electricity production to 62% renewable energy using a clever combination of smart grid technology, energy storing appliances, energy storage and renewable energy.
Alberta has clarified what it meant about extensive no-go zones in its new rules for renewable energy. The province has laid down a raft of restrictions on an industry that was booming just a year ago. We talk to Vittoria Bellissimo of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association to get the lowdown on the changes.
Ciel & Terre has created a thriving business installing 1.7 gigawatts of floating solar in 30 countries around the world in 300 projects in places that have neither the land nor roof space and at competitive rates.
Alberta just lifted a six-month-old moratorium on new renewable energy projects, but are new rules a poison pill for the once booming industry? We talk to Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon a renewable energy expert to find out.
There are 170,000 inactive and abandoned oil wells in Alberta many of which no longer pay taxes or lease payments to landowners. What if you could transform these sites into revenue-producing, tax-paying solar farms? That’s exactly what RenuWell is doing.
Energy storage and all of the technologies we need to get the grid to net-zero already exist to affordably transition the grid; government just needs to allow/facilitate their use through new tariffs and regulations says James Bererton.
Investment in solar, wind and other distributed forms of energy is booming, but it wasn’t back when Decentralized Energy Canada set up shop. We talk to DEC president and founder Anouk Kendall about how her organization has gone from the fringe to mainstream in just 20 years.
Red Deer’s popular Renewable Energy Fairs put on by ReThink Red Deer was “deep-sixed” by COVID, but the good news is it’s being reincarnated as the Energy Innovation Fair and it’s back live on October 21 at Red Deer Polytechnic.
We meet up with Sarah Delano of Parkdale Cromdale Community League to learn all about living local, food foraging, community gardens and their solar-powered community league. Parkdale Cromdale has even created its own art walk with 64 panels of local community created art spread along a trail in one of the City’s ravines.
The Tufts had a choice: bulldoze their 1953 bungalow and start over or do a deep energy retrofit to net-zero. They chose the cheaper option in this amazing story of renewal.
