
Despite a huge snow storm, over 40 people gathered at the Community Resource Centre in Killaloe on Thursday evening, February 25th for a free solar energy workshop presented by the Ottawa River Institute. Presenter Jim Cummings, of Clearly Solar in Ottawa, provided interesting and valuable information on the new Feed in Tariff (FIT and MicroFIT) programs being offered to Ontario homeowners, farmers, business owners and institutions by the Ontario Power Authority.
The FIT and MicroFIT programs are being implemented as part of the Ontario government’s Green Energy Act, which is making it possible for Ontario residents to feed electricity from renewable sources into the Ontario Hydro grid, and to make a profit from the sale of that electricity. Electricity production from solar was the focus of the workshop, however electricity production from other renewable sources such as, wind, micro-hydro and biomass are also available under this program.


