More on Carmanah, solar opportunities
This article from Business Edge covers much of the same ground I did in my recent article/post about Carmanah, but some other interesting points make this worth a read considering the latest solar initiative in California and other trends surfacing in the market. For instance, this paragraph — based on an interview with Carmanah chief operating officer Matthew Watson — caught my eye:
“Watson expects the movement toward LEED-certified buildings across Canada and demand for alternative forms of energy will fuel demand. He expects industrial applications to drive most of the early activity but also predicts strong growth in the residential sector.”
Another interesting graph:
“The firm is developing a proposal with the federal government to install solar roofs on Canadian government buildings, such as embassies, around the world.”
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca