Joe Crevits recently traded one green job or another. After taking a government buyout to walk away from the family’s decades-old tobacco farm, which he took over from his parents ... 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
Solar, Wind Energy Company Aids Industry
Toronto’s Atlantic Wind and Solar, Inc., recently launched a new Wind and Solar Financing Division to help developers, integrators, and installers find professional advice and financing for their projects. Atlantic Wind ... Read More
Belleville Solar Farm to Grow Green Careers
The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has approved a proposed $5 million solar farm in Belleville, Ontario that could include as many as 2,000 solar panels. The city is to invest ... 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
Solar Installation Projects Benefit Ontario Farmers
While These days, the majority of the press and information surrounding photovoltaics currently emphasizes the potentialability of solar panels to bring in money by feeding power into the grid, produce ... 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








