If you live in the Okanagan or Kootenays and dream of putting solar panels on your roof, FortisBC has a proposition for you.
The private utility is proposing to build a 240-kilowatt solar array north of Kelowna — and is inviting its 170,000 electricity customers to rent any number of the 170 new solar panels.
If this pilot project moves forward (the BC Utilities Commission will decide by the end of the year), the Ellison Community Solar project will be the province’s first solar facility owned and operated by a utility. If approved, it could be built by the end (Read more…).