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solar power in canada

[WHAT]

  1.  ] by Don Sagrott, founder@sospep.com - ] overview of the current state of the solar energy market in Canada 

[WHY]

  1. ] how much solar power do we currently generate?
    1. ] 2014 - PV installed = 1902 MW, 
  2. ] what percentage of our total current energy needs does that meet?,
    1. ] 0.5 % of power consumed
  3. ] how fast are we growing our solar generation capacity?
    1. ] from 2009 - 2014 Canada increased PV capacity from 96 MW to 1902 MW, a 20x increase over 5 years, average
  4. ] where
    1. ] ON,sarnia - 
    2. ] ON,kingston - 
    3. ] BC,sw  - 
  5. ] pros - 
    1. ] costs have dropped by 50% in the last 16 months
  6. ] cons - 
    1. ] need storage for 
  7. ] costs - 
  8. ] 

[WHERE]

  1. ] READ THE FULL ARTICLE
    1. ] 

[WHEN]

  1. ] 2016-05-24

[EXAMPLE]

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[HOW-TO]

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[REFERENCE]

  1. ] SRC = HN, comments 
  2. ] CREATE-article# # - (this)
  3. ] Solar-by-Country - 
  4. ] Solar-power-in-Canada 
  5. ] GRAPH global solar power growth 2000-2013 -  
  6. ] http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/11/global-solar-power-capacity-about-to-hit-200-gw/  
  7. ] IEA-PVPS_-_Trends_2015_-_Executive_Summary_-_Final.pdf 
  8. ] 

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  3. >] Cheap Solar Power (harvard.edu), SRC=hn(174)/comments(96)  
  4. [2015-05-02] > energy-R] The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months (electrek.co), SRC=hn(756)/comments(435) 
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