Ontario witnessed a tremendous increase in clean energy installations after the province implemented its feed-in-tariff program in October, 2009. The program offers high prices for power fed into the grid ... Read More
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First Nations Join Ontario’s Green Boom, Kicking off With Solar Panel Installation Training
Ontario Solar Academy Launches Aboriginal Division With PV Design and Installation Training for Curve Lake First Nation Community ISPQ-accredited, Canadian solar training school, Ontario Solar Academy (OSA), just completed ... Read More
Italian Solar PV Company Training First Seventy Workers in Ontario
An experienced Italian solar PV company has set up its first Canadian subsidiary in Ontario and is gearing up to train its first seventy workers at a new plant in ... Read More
New Study Examines Ontario’s Solar Economy
A recent study conducted by independent research firm, ClearSky Advisors, reveals that Ontario’s economy is on its way to having one of the ten strongest solar markets in the world. ... Read More
Canada’s Leading Solar School Receives International Recognition for Solar Panel Installation Training
On August 27, Ontario Solar Academy (OSA) became Canada's first photovoltaic training program to receive accreditation from the Interstate Renewable Energy Council. Built around an international framework of standards, ... Read More
Greenpeace Activists Fearful of Green Jobs Being Nuked
In Late August, Greenpeace Canada organized a ride where forty cyclists bearing flags that read “don’t nuke green energy” rode from Pickering Nuclear Generating Station to the Darlington Nuclear Station ... Read More
New Standards to Fill Void in Provincial FIT Program
Canada’s construction electricians will soon have an independent, third-party set of standards to help prepare them for work with solar PV projects. The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) has announced, in ... Read More
Major New Study Backs up Ontario’s FIT Program
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a branch of the US Department of Energy, has published a study relating feed-in tariffs (FIT) to the accelerating production of renewable energy. According to ... Read More
Canadian Bank Promotes Green Economy
TD Canada Trust is doing what it can for Canada’s green economy. The bank recently commissioned a poll of Canadian house owners to determine Canadians’ awareness of and attitudes toward ... Read More
Combining Green Energy Policies with Employment
Mayoral candidate, George Smitherman, unveiled his ambitious green energy program for Toronto while on a visit to York School at Rosedale. The school had reduced its air conditioning energy ... Read More








