Solar caps: Full grid stalls green movement
Last year, the OPA announced several
richard.mahoney@eap.on.ca
small-scale operations for the region. In
H AWKESBURY
Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, five rooftop
solar projects were approved under the
Feed-In Tariff program.
If you want to get in on the solar energy
Three are in Hawkesbury — at École
movement that has been sweeping across
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eastern Ontario, take a number.
There is no more room on the regional
secondaire publique Le Sommet, and at the
powergridforanynewelectricitygenerators,
Laurin Your Independent Grocer building
saysGlengarry-Prescott-RussellM.P.P.Jean-
at Cameron Street and County Road 17.
Marc Lalonde. “All of the current capacity is
In Casselman, L’Académie de la
either being used now or has been reserved
Seigneurie is the site for a rooftop solar
for future use,” Lalonde related during a
project. Terryland Farms in St-Eugène has
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both a solar power project and a biogas
those projects that have already been
energy project approved under the FIT
approved by the Ontario Power Authority
program. The remaining six FIT-approved
canconnecttothegrid.“Allnewapplications
biogas projects are for Ferme 3V and
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willhavetowaituntilmorecapacitybecomes
Skotidakis Farm in St-Eugène, Carleton
Snow-covered solar panels at a facility located near St-Isidore. This operation has the
available.” The solar program has caught on
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green light while many other projects are on hold.
across the province, notes Lalonde. “Some
Lanidrac in Ste-Anne-de-Prescott,
people opposed solar farms at one point.
Machabee Animal Food Ltd. in St-Albert,
Now,everyonewantsthem.Therehavebeen
and Petrocorn Inc. in Curran. The FIT
24,000 applications for solar projects across
programaimsatencouragingdevelopment
the province,” the Liberal M.P.P. says.
of small- and large-scale green energy
“But our infrastructure is old and the
projects using solar, wind, biogas, or other
demand on the system has increased,”
types of alternative power systems. The
observes Lalonde. As part of its long-term
focus is on homeowners, schools and other
Des réponses au sujet des incertitudes reliées aux projets d’énergie solaire Séance d’information sur l’énergie solaire
energy program, the province has invested
institutions, farms, large and small
$7 billion to improve 5,000 kilometres of
commercial buildings suitable for flat-roof
transmissionanddistributionlines.“Westill
solar panels, and industrial sites where
have to improve the infrastructure. We will
applicable. The program offers long-term,
have to lobby the OPA to add capacity,
stable price rates for the electricity from
particularlyineasternOntario.”Thecapacity
those alternate energy sources. Last
problem does not affect the future of large-
summer, Casselman and The Nation
scale solar operations in St-Eugène, Alfred,
unveiled solar panel installations on
St-Isidore and Fournier.
municipal buildings.
Date : le mercredi 9 mars 2011 Endroit : Club de golf Casselview
Autoroute 417 – Sortie 66 - 844, chemin Aurèle
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