Canada’s solar success and expertise now helping Saudi Arabia
renewable sources generate up to 65 percent of Canada’s electricity. Solar and wind are the country’s two fastest growing sources.According to him, Solar photovoltaic capacity reached 1,210 megawatts of cumulative installed capacity in 2013. The Canadian Solar Industry Association forecasts that annual capacity will increase three folds by 2025. By then, the Canadian solar industry will support more than 35,000 jobs, displacing 15 to 31 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year.
Canada has two of the largest solar farms in the world
Saudi Arabia, Canada to hold renewable energy seminar http://www.arabnews.com/economy/news/651686 29 Oct 14, A Canadian trade delegation, headed by Canada’s Deputy Minister of International Trade Simon Kennedy arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet several Saudi officials and major firms with a special focus on renewable energy in Saudi Arabia.
Canadian Ambassador Thomas MacDonald said Canada’s first renewable energy mission, which is focused on solar technology, will visit the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), ACWA Power and other industry leaders. Continue reading
One New South Wales opinion that the Renewable Energy discussion is furthering local solar power
Still in the dark over Renewable Energy Target changes, ABC News By Bill Brown, 28 Oct 14 “……….Over recent months there has been speculation that the Boco Rock Wind Farm currently under construction between Nimmitabel and Bombala will not proceed to its second stage.
However, Dr Nott is confident that small scale systems such as the solar power his organisation has been installing on surf clubs around the region, will not be affected.
He also believes that the current uncertainty is worrying the community and creating more interest in his group and broader advocacy for renewable energy.
“The perceived reluctance by the Abbott government to tackle climate change is creating more interest in what we’re doing at a community level and is possibly making it easier for us to fundraise for the sort of projects we are doing at the moment,” he said, referring to a community solar farm project at Tathra.
A local solar power system supplier, however, is concerned that every time there is bad press about renewable energy then customer demand drops off.
He says there will be a minimum effect on household solar power, but nonetheless the concern and the negative publicity about the RET review will affect his business.
“Every time,” he said, “there’s a three months drop”.http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/10/28/4116603.htm
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