by admin | Feb 3, 2022 | Blog, Electricity Grid, Renewable Energy
CanREA’s Director of Energy Storage, Leonard Olin, knows the value of energy storage. In the association’s newly released Laying the Foundation Paper, he points out priorities for supporting the decarbonization of Canada’s electricity grid with...
by admin | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog, court, Electricity Grid, Emera, Energy Innovation, OpenHydro, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
In the Irish High Court today, Ms. Justice Miriam O’Regan heard there’s a chance Irish based OpenHydro can survive, with a restructuring plan and new investment, according to an independent report. That’s why, on August 17, even though she noted the...
by admin | Jul 27, 2018 | Blog, Electricity Grid, Energy Innovation, Renewable Energy, Tidal Power
The tide turned on OpenHydro, the first company to launch a turbine in the Minas Passage in Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy. (The first attempt was in 2009 when OpenHydro partnered with Nova Scotia Power deploying a smaller open centre turbine). The high cost...
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 11, 2017 | Blog, Electricity Grid, Renewable Energy
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia announced 18 Solar Community Project winners at events around the province on Friday November 10, 2017. Rev. Neale Bennet, the President of Atlantic School of Theology, was at the announcement in the AST Library in Halifax. The...
