Monday
May122008
News - World photovoltaic-solar leader? Ontario!
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 8:36PM
Apparently Sarnia is to be the site of the largest photovoltaic solar installation in North America, which is also larger than any current photovoltaic installation in the world.
The reason for this, and many other pending solar facilities in Ontario is that the Ontario government has agreed to pay 42 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar, which is about 7 times the rate of non-green energy. Some critics have stated that while this is a good incentive for green energy in Ontario, it is a fundamentally unsustainable cost for energy and will inevitably have to be rescinded if it becomes too popular.
The Ontario government has approved a California company's plan to build North America's largest photovoltaic solar farm, the provincial energy ministry announced Thursday.
OptiSolar Farms Canada Inc. of Arthur, Ont. — a subsidiary of California-based OptiSolar Inc. — will install more than one million solar panels at four farms outside Sarnia, Ont., providing the province with 40 megawatts of power by 2010. Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said that's enough to power 6,000 homes.
The reason for this, and many other pending solar facilities in Ontario is that the Ontario government has agreed to pay 42 cents per kilowatt-hour for solar, which is about 7 times the rate of non-green energy. Some critics have stated that while this is a good incentive for green energy in Ontario, it is a fundamentally unsustainable cost for energy and will inevitably have to be rescinded if it becomes too popular.
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really good