Solar Park to Create Power for 10,000 Homes
Great news in the green energy sector this week – Canada has turned on its new solar energy park. The Ontario First Light Solar Park is the largest of its kind in Canada and can proudly boast to generate enough power for 10,000 homes each year.
The joint project is being constructed and run by SunEdison Canada and the SkyPower Corporation. The massive site covers 90 acres and uses around 126,000 solar panels that capture the sunlight and generates the 10 million KWH of renewable electricity needed to power a large town.
The Ontario First Light Solar Park is located at Stone Mills near Napanee. This 9 MW plant will be great news to green energy campaigners around the globe and sets the bench mark for other nations to follow suit.
I always thought a program like this would be a non starter in the UK as our long winters and lack of sunshine would diminish the amount of energy needed to create enough power for a sizable amount of homes, however I don’t think Canada’ winters are any better than ours here in the UK so could a project like the Ontario First Light Solar Park work here in the UK.
Open to opinions and comments on the above.
Ontario
Over the last 6 years Ontario has been involved in over 150 solar projects creating more than 1200 MW of renewable Energy and they aint stopping there. The Province of Ontario is expecting another two large massive solar paneled projects to be up and running by the end of this year giving the rest of the world a little insight on the success Ontario has had in creating renewable energy. We should all follow suit. Ontario has set itself targets of having no coal energy sources by the year 2014.
Well Done so far.
