Tag: British Columbia
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EVLO tapped to provide BESS for utility-scale solar + storage project in British Columbia
Hydro-Québec subsidiary EVLO Energy Storage Inc. is providing its batter technology for the first solar + storage project in Summerland, British Columbia. The Summerland project includes a 0.4 MW solar array and four EVLO 1000 battery energy storage units, along with EVLO’s proprietary EMS control system, which will provide 4 MWh of storage capacity. “Summerland……
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Fracked Gas: A Bridge Fuel to Nowhere
To start, natural gas is not the clean-energy solution it’s touted to be. According to the Pembina Institute, if only five of the 12 proposed liquefied natural gas terminals were built on the B.C. coast, they could spew 63-million tons of carbon a year into the atmosphere—exceeding the amount now produced by the Alberta tar…
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BC Offshore Wind Signs Up Siemens, And Hopes
An offshore wind power project planned for British Columbia’s Hecate Strait wants to use a new 4-megawatt Siemens turbine, but it will have to overcome hurdles first. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit Eart…
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A Million Green Jobs Eyed By West Coast Leaders
The Pacific Coast Collaborative—British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California—hatches a plan to create 1 million new green jobs in the region by 2020.