Energy Minister Dwight Duncan plans to make a major announcement today on 14 Canadian renewable energy projects.
The 14 projects will add more than 107 MW to the provincial grid, and will include two new water power projects with Ontario First Nations.
The largest project has been announced: Canada’s largest solar farm is being built near Sarnia, Ontario, a 40 MW farm consisting of over 1 million panels on the ground. The power will be sold to the provincial government.
California-based OptiSolar is building the plant and plans to have electricity on the Ontario power grid by 2010.
OptiSolar will be paid CAN 42 cents ($0.38)per kilowatt-hour for the solar power, almost quadruple the price for wind power.
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