Feed-in tariff, also known as “CLEAN Contracts.” Perhaps most famous for its successful implementation in Germany, a feed-in tariff is a policy tool that guarantees a fixed price at which renewable generators can sell the electricity they produce. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/14/388988/feed-in-tariff-electric-rates/

May 31, 2011 Recent articles in Ontario papers have claimed that nuclear energy provides a more sustainable approach to caring for Canada’s growing power needs. Examining this claim compels us to ask several significant questions. 1)   What is the actual installation cost for nuclear plants including eventual system decommissioning? 2)   What is the production cost including hidden costs such as waste disposal and other taxpayer subsidized expenses? 3)   What are…

Ethosolar, member with Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) Vendors/Distributors/Installers. http://www.ontario-sea.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=2450

OTTAWA – Key representatives are joining the industry at Solar Canada 2011, Canada’s largest solar gathering, being held Dec. 5-6 at the Metro-Toronto Convention Centre, showing support for the solar industry and the future it provides. http://www.cansia.ca/news-media-archive/press-release-ontario-representatives-come-out-solar-canada-2011-support-green

Watch Paul McKay’s keynote from Community Power 2011 http://www.ontario-sea.org/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=3463&SiteNodeID=296&BL_ExpandID=

Ethosolar News Green Power: Ontario’s Game-Changer Asset Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Paul McKay during “Community Power 2011” Paul McKay is a former OSEA director, past senior policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of Energy, and philanthropist who supports off-grid solar projects in poor Amazon communities. The Feed-In-Tariff (F.I.T.) program as THE problem solver. ”The FIT program is Ontario’s best mechanism to solve energy, employment and environmental problems….

A project to evaluate the potential to install a 5 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power facility at the closed Milliken Sanitary Landfill located in Ontario, Canada has been agreed http://www.waste-management-world.com/index/display/article-display/0653098252/articles/waste-management-world/landfill/2011/12/5MW_Solar_Facility_Planned_at_Closed_Ontario_Landfill.html

MEDIA RELEASE (ALLISTON, ON – – May 24, 2011) The first solar Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) project of its size in the Alliston area has begun installation on the rooftop of the storage facility known as Sunrise Potato Storage located at 5546 County Road 15, Alliston, ON. A joint venture between Dr. Peter VanderZaag, his wife Carla; his son Andrew and daughter-in-law, Rhonda, the 250 KW project is one of the largest…