Solar manufacturers, suppliers eye Ontario’s new feed-in tariffs
First Solar took over more than 200 megawatts worth of OptiSolar projects in Ontario. Recurrent Energy just purchased a solar project pipeline from Chicago-based UPC Solar that is based mostly in Ontario. SunEdison, EDF Energies Nouvelles, and Axio Power are also in the game. Meawhile, Martin Roscheisen of Nanosolar says his company is seriously considering Ontario as the location of a regional module assembly facility. Ontario’s newly proposed solar feed-in tariffs, which range from 44.3 cents per kilowatt-hour for large ground-mount systems to 80.2 cents for residential rooftop, “could tip the balance in favour of investment in Ontario,” said Roscheisen.
For more details read Toronto Star article here.
Tags: Axio Power, EDF Energies, First Solar, Green Energy Act, Nanosolar, Ontario feed-in tariffs, Optisolar, Recurrent Energy, UPC Solar
Tyler Hamilton is associate publisher and editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and former business columnist for the Toronto Star. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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