Canada

Neon begins building Canadian solar farm
Fox Coulee is scheduled to start operating in 2024
Dec 23, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Canada, North America, solar farm, Xavier Barbaro, Emmanuel Pujol, Neon
Westbridge acquires Canadian solar-storage project
Eastervale site in Alberta will certainly comprise 300MW PV and 200MW BESS when developed
Nov 3, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Canada, North America, PV Power Plant, Stefano Romanin, Westbridge, Maggie McKenna
Canada's Brookfield Invests $2 Billion in Scout Clean Energy, Standard Solar
The purchases will be invested via the Brookfield Global Transition Fund I (BGTF I), which it declares to be the biggest fund worldwide concentrated on the energy transition. Both Scout and Standard Solar will certainly continue to operate as independent businesses within the Brookfield Renewable US platform.
Oct 3, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, Standard Solar, energy transition, Scott Wiater, Connor Teskey, Scout Clean Energy, Michael Rucker, Brookfield acquisition, Entropy
Starlight eyes 1.75 GW PV potential in Canada and also Romania
NextEnergy organization has safeguarded land civil liberties as well as preliminary link terms for 435MW of solar
Sep 29, 2022 // Plants, Canada, Europe, North America, Romania, NextEnergy, Starlight
ABB signs green hydrogen pact with Canadian firm
Contract with Hydrogen Optimized aimed at speeding up production with 'unique large-scale architecture'
Aug 25, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Solar to Fuel, Canada, ABB, hydrogen, North America, Joachim Braun
Canada's govt supports solar-plus-storage project in Yukon
The federal government of Canada today announced a CAD-15.5-million (USD 12m/EUR 11.8 m) investment in a solar-plus-storage project in the Yukon, the most northwestern area of the country.
Aug 19, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, solar-plus-storage project, Yukon
US rookie starts developing 234MW of Canadian PV
Proteus Power's three solar projects in Alberta will be co-located with 97MW of power storage space
Jul 26, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Canada, North America, Proteus Power, Mike Lambros
Polar Racking acquires single-axis tracker producer Axsus Solar
PV placing systems supplier Polar Racking has acquired Axsus Solar, adding the Axsus Sol-X single-axis tracker to its item portfolio while doing so.
Jul 21, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Canada, tracker, North America, m&a, acquisition, mounting systems, tracker manufacturing, Polar Racking, Single-axis tracker
Brookfield to get in 161MW/644MWh battery project in Ontario IESO tender
A subsidiary of Canadian renewable resource investor Brookfield Renewable has actually suggested a 161MW/644MWh battery storage system to complete in an Ontario grid operator Request for Proposals (RfP).
Jul 13, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Canada, North America, IESO, rfp, lfp, co-location, Brookfield, ontario
United States to get rid of guard tariffs on solar imports from Canada
The US as well as Canada have agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to solve a dispute on trade in solar products, where the US will remove its safeguard tariffs on solar items from Canada.
Jul 8, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, Canada, North America, MoU
Westbridge includes another large-scale project to Alberta solar-plus-storage advancement portfolio
Westbridge Energy Corporation has added one more large-scale solar-plus-storage project to its development portfolio in Alberta, Canada.
Jun 9, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Canada, solar-plus-storage, interconnection, North America, alberta, grid connection, developers, AESO
Canadian port plans renewables hub
Port of Argentia to create wind and also green hydrogen projects with Pattern Energy Group
Jun 2, 2022 // Plants, Solar to Fuel, Canada, North America, green hydrogen, onshore wind, PORT OF ARGENTIA
Heliene seeing soaring demand for modules as AD/CVD case continues, eyeing capacity expansions therefore
Canadian PV module producer Heliene has actually seen extraordinary demand for its modules complying with the United States Department of Commerce's (DOC) decision to explore alleged anti-dumping and also circumvention (AD/CVD) by solar producers in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and also Cambodia, which continues to spread chaos throughout the US solar market.
May 12, 2022 // Manufacturing News, USA, Canada, pv power plants, North America, module manufacturing, module supply deals, heliene, AD/CVD
Zinc-ion battery for residential applications
Established by Canadian start-up Salient Energy, the zinc-ion battery has actually a rated capacity of 60 Ah, a nominal voltage of 1.3 V, and a volumetric energy density of 100 Wh/L. The tool measures 26cmx24cmx1.2 cm and weighs in at 1.3 kg
Apr 21, 2022 // Residential, Storage, Canada, North America, Zinc-ion, University of Bremen
Greencells, IndyGen pursue solar in Canada
Greencells is scoping a growth pipe of solar projects in Canada with an integrated capacity of about 1 GWp together with UK-based firm IndyGen Utility Ltd
Apr 18, 2022 // Plants, Canada, North America, greencells, IndyGen