News | Newswire | Mar 9, 2010

VANCOUVER, BC — Ballard Power Systems announced this week that it has $6.2 million in project funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under contract over a four year period. Ballard Material Products, a U.S. subsidiary of Ballard Power Systems, was awarded $4.1 million as prime for a contract ...

News | Newswire | Mar 9, 2010

VANCOUVER, BC — Nexterra Systems Corp., a leading supplier of advanced, renewable biomass gasification heat and power solutions, announced that it has received the 2010 Sustainability Champion Award by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). Nexterra has received VANOC's 2010 Sustainability Champion Award for ...

News | Newswire | Mar 2, 2010

TORONTO, ON — The Ontario Power Authority announced this week the launch of a website where service providers and suppliers of five renewable energy technologies (solar air, solar water, geothermal, solar photovoltaic and small wind) can apply to be included on a vendor list. Website applications will be used to ...

News | Newswire | Feb 24, 2010

HALIFAX, NS — Green electricity provider Bullfrog Power has announced that WHW Architects, an architectural firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is now bullfrogpowered with clean, emissions-free electricity. Playing a major role in helping its clients achieve sustainable building projects and use renewable energy sources where possible, WHW chose green ...

News | Newswire | Feb 3, 2010

HAMILTON, ON — Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc., a producer of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) solutions, announced Monday that the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board will purchase five of Cleanfield's proprietary V3.5 VAWTs and the Durham Catholic District School Board will purchase three turbines. The school boards are purchasing ...

News | Newswire | Feb 3, 2010

TORONTO, ON — The Korean Consortium, which signed a green energy investment agreement with the province of Ontario on Jan. 21, has begun negotiations with several established wind and solar power manufacturers to expedite the development of four facilities: wind tower, solar inverter, solar module assembly and wind blade manufacturing. ...

Features | Crystal Luxmore | Mar 10, 2010

Quebec is revolutionizing the relationship between towns and the forests around them in an effort to stop the hemorrhaging of local jobs from the struggling forest industry. The solution is simple: let regional bodies decide who gets to use the wood. In Canada, each province has a different system for ...

Features | EM Staff | Mar 2, 2010

Bloom Energy Corporation announced the availability of the much-hyped Bloom Energy Server on February 24th. The patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is being touted by the company as a cleaner, more reliable, and more affordable alternative to both today’s electric grid as well as traditional renewable energy sources. ...

Features | Lisa Borsook and Jeff G. Cowan | Jan 26, 2010

A number of landlords, owners and tenants have recently received inquiries from rooftop solar panel installers, interested in installing solar panels on their roofs. In principle, the idea sounds good, encouraging green power solutions. But in circumstances in which the owner is not the end user of the building (it ...

Features | Ricki Normandin | Dec 9, 2009

Medicine Hat, Alberta, dubbed "The Gas City" because of its huge natural gas reserves, is looking to the sun for some of its own energy needs. Unique for a Canadian municipality, Medicine Hat is in the gas production business. A vertically integrated energy utility, the city has approximately 4,000 natural ...

Features | Robert Colman | Nov 26, 2009

An international renewable energy contingency was in Ottawa recently for the Ocean Renewable Energy Group’s (OREG) 2009 Fall Symposium. Prior to the event, which assembles Canada's ocean energy industry leadership and international associates who see the resource and economic opportunities our oceans and massive river systems offer, Scottish Development International ...

Features | Cheryl Marco | Jun 16, 2009

Business owners and entrepreneurs seeking environmentally friendly and cost-effective ways to ‘go green’ need look no further than the systems they are using to heat and cool their office and commercial spaces. This is where businesses can reap tremendous cost savings while simultaneously reducing Canada’s carbon footprint. ...

Columns | Thomas R. Casten | Dec 17, 2008

Overcoming regulatory barriers for your clean energy project. Many of the world’s best brains are focused on reducing fossil fuel use to mitigate climate change. Strangely, little attention is paid to the source of the greatest inefficiency — the generation of heat and power, which accounts for 69 per cent of ...

Columns | Thomas R. Casten | Oct 23, 2007

Ethanol could be a valuable addition to our fuel resources, but it will require a new approach to its ...