by admin | Jan 19, 2018 | Blog, Electric vehicles, electricity consumers, Electricity Grid, Energy Transportation
Jeremie Bernardin is not a car salesman, but as an electric vehicle enthusiast, he sees a need for a broad approach, like in British Columbia, to get Nova Scotians to consider buying EVs. That’s what he told CBC Radio Host Norma Lee MacLeod when he called into...
by admin | Dec 8, 2017 | Blog, electricity consumers, Electricity Grid, Energy Grid, energy security, Renewable Energy
For the first time, electricity has been exchanged between the Island of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia through Emera’s Maritime Link undersea cable project. This is a historic milestone for the transformative interconnection. The first electrons across the...
by admin | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog, electricity consumers, Energy Innovation
Saint John Energy won the Smart Energy Communities Award in the Utility and Energy Service Providers Sector at the QUEST (Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow) Gala on November 7th, 2017 in Ottawa at their annual conference. Saint John Energy launched their...
by admin | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog, Electric vehicles, Energy Innovation, Energy Transportation
Danny Ferguson can hardly wait till later this morning, the first day of the school year. That’s when he’ll be driving one of New Brunswick’s first two 100% electric school buses. He can hardly wait to hear what the kids will have to say. He said...
by admin | Jun 30, 2017 | Blog, Energy Innovation, energy security, off grid electricity
After Eastern North America’s 1998 Ice Storm, Cam Farnell survived in Kingston, Ontario without power in frigid weather for days in his grid connected home. That’s when he started researching the merits of off-grid living. Fast forward to 2017. Cam Farnell...
by admin | May 25, 2017 | Blog, Energy Innovation
Swiss based ABB, a pioneering leader in electrification products, inaugurated its new high tech Montreal campus in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, on May 24, according to a Canada Newswire press advisory. The Honourable Bill Moreau, and other Canadian government officials...