Tag: brad duguid

  • Ontario’s Smart Grid Gives You Greater Control of Your Home Electricity Use & Costs

    Soon, Smart Grid technology in Ontario, Canada, will bring from the supplier to you the electricity which you can conveniently control its use and cost in your home via two-way digital communications. Here are the electrifying benefits of the Smart Grid coming to every dwelling in Ontario: Families and businesses will get more control over…

  • Clean Energy Transformation of Ontario Schools This Fall

    This fall in Ontario, our schoolchildren will enter cleaner, greener and more sustainable schools (126 schools) which, by that time, will be powered by cleaner and renewable sources of energy, like solar, wind and geothermal. Our children will enjoy a healthier learning environment because using renewable energy will help schools reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.…

  • Renewable Energy Projects in Ontario’s Schools

    Ontario, Canada: Newsroom Media Advisory Ontario Schools Benefiting from Renewable Energy April 20, 2011 Leona Dombrowsky, Minister of Education, and Brad Duguid, Minister of Energy, will visit Ontario Electrical Construction Company Limited to announce renewable energy projects in Ontario’s schools. Date: April 21, 2011

  • Creating Clean Energy Jobs to Build Industrial-Size Solar Inverters

    The Clean Energy Economy is blooming this spring since up to 200 new solar manufacturing jobs are created as Samsung C&T Corp. and SMA Solar Technology AG have partnered to build industrial-size solar inverters at Celestica’s facilities in Toronto. These exciting solar inverters are electric devices that convert energy produced in solar panels into power…

  • Ontarians: Cutting Energy Costs on Your Utility Bill & Breathing Better

    There are two major improvements worthy of  Ontarians’ attention. Cutting Energy Costs on Your Utility Bill First, starting May 1, 2011, homeowners can get those electrical-appliance chores done on weekdays at the earlier time 7 p.m. – instead of the current 9 p.m. – as the new Time-of-Use off-peak period for electricity at the lowest…

  • Happy Earth Hour in Ontario, Canada!

    Today is the big day! Earth Hour will start this evening from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recorded 207,473 total Earth Hour pledges in Canada! Kudos Ontario for these great green works: “Conserve energy and generate peak demand savings of more than 1,700 MW of electricity since 2005, which is…