Solar In Canada 2023 — A Primer
As Canada moves forward towards becoming a net-zero economy by 2050, more rebates, incentives, and tax cuts are being introduced. The solar industry is smiling.
As Canada moves forward towards becoming a net-zero economy by 2050, more rebates, incentives, and tax cuts are being introduced. The solar industry is smiling.
Three Canadian solar manufacturers — Silfab Solar, Heliene, and Canadian Solar — have filed a lawsuit with the US Court of International Trade in New York against Donald Trump’s imposition of 30% tariffs on all imported solar cells and modules, citing “immediate, severe, and irreversible injuries” for the Canadian solar industry.
Solar West is part of three portfolio shows (Solar Canada will be in December 5-6, 2016 in Toronto, CA) which gives you the chance to discover opportunities in all of Canada’s most important solar energy markets. It is the leading conference for solar policy and market trends in Western Canada. … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end … [continued]
The newest edition of the Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme report was recently released by the IEA — detailing a huge quantity of different aspects of the global solar PV market as well as country- and region-specific solar PV markets. This 19th edition of the report provides a number of highly interesting/useful … [continued]
Originally published in the ECOreport. The 9th annual Paddle for the Peace was held Saturday, July 12, 2014. This year’s trek was especially important because of the impending decision on British Columbia’s proposed Site C dam. If this project is approved, close to 9,429 acres of class 1-5 farmland will … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath. The installed capacity of solar PV in North and South America will increase more than tenfold over the coming years, jumping from 13.1 Gigawatts (GW) in 2013 to 138.8GW by 2030 – according to a new report from consulting firm GlobalData. The research … [continued]
Originally published on The Ecoreport. According to a provincial government study called the Potential for Solar Power in British Columbia: 2007 to 2025, BC’s climate is much more amenable to solar than either Germany’s or Japan’s. The average production of a PV solar array in Kamloops, for example, is 1160 … [continued]
It’s no secret, Chinese solar module manufacturers have come along and dominated the solar module market. In 2012, according to IHS, six out of the top ten solar module manufacturers were Chinese companies, including #1 Yingli Green Energy. Now, a recent Solarbuzz report found that Chinese solar module manufacturers led … [continued]
Following our top solar states rankings and our top solar countries rankings, below are rankings that mix the two. The rankings are for total and new solar power capacity per capita as well as total and new solar power per GDP. I thin the results are very interesting…. If you … [continued]