Brazilian farmers have been expanding their solar energy capacity and testing batteries as a storage solution in a bid to make electricity supplies more predictable and potentially reduce diesel consumption.
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Brazilian producers bet on solar energy and battery tech
Increased use of alternative energy means greater business for equipment providers, reduced dependence on fossil fuel and more efficient farming
Flax pellet plans move back to Saskatchewan
Regina based Prairie Clean Energy is bringing its flax pellet facility home. After one year of using Hemp Sense’s pellet mill facility in Gilbert Plains, Man., PCE is preparing for a more local launch. It announced a crowdfunding campaign with a goal of $1.5 million on June 11 to buy the equipment needed to process […] Read more
Renewables pause painted as landowner issue
Alberta says regulatory approval pause will allow it to consider how landowner rights fit into the renewable energy boom
Following a surprise announcement by the Alberta government, no new regulatory approvals for wind or solar projects that are more than one megawatt in size will be issued for the next six months as of August 2023 as it reviews the state of the industry. Provincial government officials have said alternative energy developments have happened […] Read more
Alta. regulator says no to proposed solar project
Alberta Utilities Commission rules that bird death numbers would be too high if project near Frank Lake was to go ahead
The 1,500-acre Foothills Solar Project was to have been built near Frank Lake east of High River, Alta. However, sunlight reflecting off the panels could be confused for water by migratory and breeding birds, causing them to be killed or injured, said conservation specialist Ruiping Luo of the Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA).
Fossil fuel alternatives not workable on farm scale
The chief executive officer of the Agri-Food Innovation Council last week said the technology to replace fossil fuels with alternative sources isn’t yet scalable. Serge Buy told the standing committee on agriculture that examples of farmers using biomass to dry grain are just that, and only larger farms with bigger, healthier budgets are likely to […] Read more
Wind, solar power no magical solution
Despite our best efforts to foresee what the future will bring, we really don’t know what is forthcoming until the future becomes the present. The challenge of climate change has focused our attention on what this unknowable future will look like and what we can or should do about any potentially serious impacts. The focus […] Read more
‘Heat highway’: opportunity or danger?
Alberta needs to do more to protect farmers under proposed provincial legislation that aims to clarify the rules for the development of geothermal energy, says a surface rights advocate. “We’ve told the government we’re very concerned about this new geothermal bill because it strips all the protection of oil and gas away from these (geothermal) […] Read more
Rebates make solar power a ‘no-brainer’
UPDATE: September 23, 2019 – The day this story was posted SaskPower announced it was halting its net metering program. The program is currently “under review.” Joe Wecker spent years looking into a solar power system for his organic farm in southern Saskatchewan, but it didn’t make financial sense until a rebate program was introduced by […] Read more
Brown energy? Dung to power Finnish horse show
OSLO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Horse manure will generate electricity for an international horse show in Finland this month in a new form of alternative energy, Finnish utility Fortum said on Wednesday. It said the Helsinki horse show in mid-October will be the first at which the event’s electricity needs, from scoreboards to lighting, are […] Read more
Sask. rejects wind turbine project at Chaplin
A wind power project near Chaplin, Sask., will not go ahead in its proposed location. Environment minister Scott Moe announced today that the potential impacts on migratory birds were too great and for that reason he could not approve it. The $355 million project was planned for an area north of Chaplin. Chaplin Lake, part […] Read more
