Tim Weis

212. The year wind power won the price war

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Energy Shift - the way forward

207. Energy Shift – An oil and gas guy’s take on alternative energy

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 By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Peter Koning has been an oil and gas …

Joel Gingrich with Alternative Energy Lab behind

206. Sleepy small city college with a big solar vision

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 By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Red Deer College has surged beyond its own …

NAIT Alternative Energy comes of age

204. NAIT from the cutting edge to leaders of the energy revolution in seven short years

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 By David Dodge and Scott Rollans When NAIT started its Alternative Energy Program in …

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.

Electric Buses in China

190. Energy disrupted: Five trends driving global energy transition

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 By David Dodge and Scott Rollans A few short years ago, clean energy was …

Tim Weis at Blackspring Ridge Wind Farm

2017 a banner year for green energy in Alberta

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans 2017 will go down as a breakthrough year for …

Eagles fly on solar power

175. NFL Eagles fly on 100% renewable energy

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By David Dodge, Green Energy Futures When the 70,000 fans of the Philadelphia Eagles fill …

Bull Creek Wind Farm

151. Wind farm powers 500 Alberta schools

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The rolling hills South of Wainwright are home to …

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148. Summerside smart grid uses 46 per cent wind power

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson In 2015, the city of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, …

Lliam Hildebrand is an boilermaker and oilsands worker that helped found Iron and Earth to call on training in renewable energy for out of work oil workers.

146. Iron and Earth: oilsands workers call for training in renewable energy

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The call to action on the Iron and Earth …

A beautiful home in West Cape PEI with the West Cape Wind Farm in the background. Islanders get an average of 26 per cent of their electricity from wind power. Virtually all of the rest comes from an inter-tie undersea cable to the New Brunswick grid. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

145. Prince Edward Island rocks wind power

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in Canada. …

Scott Harper, the CEO of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada at North Cape on Prince Edward Island. The institute reinvented itself in 2005 adding it's own 10 megawatt wind farm to the research institute to fund their work and being real life experience to their research and work. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

144. The Wind Energy Institute loves wind so much, they bought the farm

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Long before you get to the North Cape of …

Calgary is wind powered

143. Renewable energy powers Calgary, Canada’s oil capital

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Alberta’s carbon tax is expected to have a relatively …

Medicine Hat, Alberta AKA "The Gas City" wanted to diversify into wind power so they entered into a public private partnership with Wind River Power to build a 6 megawatt wind farm, the largest inside a city in Canada. The power purchase agreement is what helped access bank financing from ATB Financial, something that is challenging in Alberta's deregulated electricity market. Since Alberta needs 5-7 gigawatts of new renewable energy by 2030, creating enough price certainty to attract bank financing will be very important in Alberta. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Learn more: https://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/canada-germany-renewable-financing

141. Financing critical for renewable energy projects

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson It’s no secret that the Germans have done a …

Saskatchewan will add another 1,700 megawatts of wind capacity between now and 2030 to reach their goal of 50% of generation capacity. This naturally means actual generation by renewables will be much lower due to capacity factors of less than 50%. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

140. Saskatchewan blows the dust off its dirty electricity grid

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson It’s late winter in rural Saskatchewan. The highways are …

In Green Energy Futures' whirlwind tour of wind energy myths we learned that the only significant health effect of wind farms is that they annoy some people. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

133. A whirlwind tour of wind energy myths

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson It seems to happen with every new technology. It …

Jason Rioux's shipping container cabin. The cabin was built out of seven sea containers in a hub and spoke pattern near Bobcaygeon, Ontario. This incredibly innovative sea container cabin is powered by a small 1 kW solar system and is packed with energy efficiency innovation - probably part of the reason the video has more than 100k views on YouTube. Photo Courtesy of Jason Rioux

130. Green Energy Futures: Our favourite stories from 2015 from net-zero to sea container cabin

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The year 2015 may well go down as the …

Highlight of 2015 - Dan Hofer, financial boss, David Vonesch of Skyfire Energy and Jake Hofer electrician with Green Acres Farm near Bassano, Alberta pose in front of their 2 megawatt solar farm that consists of more than 7,600 solar modules that produce the electricity to run Green Acre's recycling and farming operations. Photo David Dodge GreenEnergyFutures.ca

129. Green Energy: The highlights of 2015

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson  No question, 2015 will be remembered as a banner …

According to Penelope Comette of the Pembina Institute and the Green Jobs Map there are 14,100 renewable energy jobs in B.C. Photo David Dodge

127. Renewable energy jobs a big growth sector

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson By any metric, the renewable energy sector is a …