Solar Panels Brooks Alberta

Gte solar in early 2017 successfully divested of the brooks 1 solar facility to a leading canadian renewable energy company.

Solar panels brooks alberta.

Elemental energy is developing the brooks solar ii project which is located adjacent to the operating brooks solar project. Elemental energy is constructing a 15 megawatt solar facility near brooks. This project will include 50 000 solar panels that can power up to 3 000 homes and will be the first utility scale solar project in western canada. Brooks solar is a 17 mw solar project located adjacent to the transcanada highway in brooks alberta.

That live across from brooks solar power plant feel blindsided by a proposed expansion. Land owners in brooks alta. According to data from national resources canada the average solar system in alberta can produce 1276kwh of electricity per kw of solar panels per year. Alberta is said to have some of the best sunlight in the country for solar.

Alberta has the second highest potential to produce solar energy in all of canada receiving more solar irradiation than any other province or territory other than saskatchewan. Brought online in 2017 brooks solar is an innovative project with a long term corporate power purchase agreement. Using over 48 000 high efficiency solar modules and nearly 3 000 tables of fixed racking system it is currently the largest utility scale solar plant in alberta. Brooks solar ii will build on the success of brooks solar western canada s first utility scale solar project.

Social sharing 30 million solar array will. Please check this website for updates as the project progresses. Brooks 1 3d site plan. The brooks project is the first of several renewable energy projects to be constructed in alberta as the province shifts away from coal power plants.

We own and operate the brooks solar project the first utility scale solar project in western canada. 17 mw solar power facility on 30 hectares of land in newell county near brooks. Borea was responsible for the full engineering procurement and construction scope. Emissions reduction alberta era is supporting western canada s first utility scale in exccess of 10 mw solar project.

In this file photo a solar field can be seen situated directly adjacent to the trans canada highway near brooks alta. The project will use jinkosolar high efficiency mono perc modules installed by borea construction. The proposed expansion would add 90 000 solar panels.