Solar-powered curling, anyone? Or what about solar-powered sewage treatment?
Hudson’s Hope, the municipality that would be most affected by the Site C dam, is going solar with a blast.
“It’s starting to look like a real, honest to goodness twenty-first century solar community,” said Don Pettit of the Peace Energy Renewable Energy Cooperative, the business that recently installed 1,580 photovoltaic panels, giving Hudson’s Hope the largest municipal solar array in the province.
The panels — in more than a half-dozen locations, including on the rooftops of the public works shop, municipal building, curling rink, arena, and beside sewage treatment lagoons — (Read more…) save an estimated $70,000 a year in hydro bills, according to Hudson’s Hope mayor Gwen Johansson.