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Carl Denis in sea of solar

199. Alberta manufacturer sees solar as key to the future

David Dodge August 22, 2018Solar, Renewable Energy 1 Comment

By David Dodge & Scott Rollans Multinational businesses like Google, Apple and IKEA are …

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

David Dodge April 11, 2016Wind, Financing, Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

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

Mike Brigham, the president of Solar Share, at its WaterView facility. Located on the roof of a bus manufacturing plant it has 438kw of thin-film solar.

13. Solar bonds: Ethical, local investing in solar energy

David Dodge September 25, 2012Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It might actually be easier to fit a camel …