Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain to Install Solar Panels on 100+ Stores in Ontario
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March 10, 2010 by admin
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Loblaw Couldn’t Resist Ontario’s Generous Feed-in Tariff?
Loblaw is announcing today that it will put solar panels on the roof of 4 supermarkets in a pilot program, with the ultimate goal of installing solar arrays on more than 100 stores in Ontario. This is not surprising considering how insanely generous the feed-in tariffs for solar power are in the province (between 53.9 and 80.2 ยข/kWh, with 20-year contracts). I just hope that measures have been taken to avoid repeating what happened in S… Read the full story on TreeHugger
- Ontario Announces 2,500 Megawatts of Renewable Energy Deals
- Canada’s Largest Supermarket Chain Going Solar (on Over 100 Ontario Stores)
- Bosch coming to Ontario, but how committed will it be?
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Fresh from the Sun Energy Inc., is a group of private investors headed by Loblaws Sr.V.P using the stores’ rooftops and subsidized energy prices under FIT contract for own gain.
References
1. http://fit.powerauthority.on.ca/Storage.asp?StorageID=10645
2. Province of Ontario, Ministry of Government Services, Corporation Profile Report (Ontario Corp # 2225215)
We congratulate the food chain group for giving us green corners around us. We also want green job also to be generated.
We are a group of engineers have started new company for installation to be self employed. We have all certifications and trained manpower. We hope that the management would procure the installation services
through competative bid. So that our company can perticipate in the business to grow together.
CEO
Hiron Ghose, P.Eng.
Visit http://www.gtech-canada.com One of the great pros of solar energy is the ability to harness electricity in remote locations that are not linked to a national grid. A prime example of this is in space, where satellites are powered by high efficiency solar cells.