Solar PV Electricity and Solar Heating - Howell-Mayhew Engineering

A+ for EnergyContext: Challenges with Solar Energy…• Purchase costs are high• Supply and installation chain is growing in its experience and depth• Not a lot of broad-based experience in Canada• Has to compete with highly subsidized coal- and natural gas-electricity• Previously, little interest by governments in developing policies andprogrammes that facilitate it– Ontario, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, (BC ?), Medicine Hat, Edmonton, now haveincentive programmes for solar– Canada and Alberta instead have incentive programmes for coal, oil, gas,tar sands and nuclear(do these energy sources need heavy subsidiesin order to remain viable in the face of clean energy sources?)Insanity is doing the same thing over and over…and expecting different results.BenjaminFranklinSolar Energy Project Development Specialists 12