News & Articles on Solar Energy

While I have primarily worked with wind energy, I have long been a proponent of renewable energy in the broadest sense. This includes solar energy. My work in Canada, especially Ontario, stressed inclusion of solar energy because it had been previously overlooked. At one time Ontario was one of the leading jurisdictions in North America developing solar photovoltaics due in part to the programs I and others pushed. The political winds changed and these policies were abandoned and with it Ontario’s progress toward a renewable energy future.

Photon Magazine’s Model Solar Photovoltaics Feed-in Tariff Contract under Germany’s EEG

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Envisaging feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaic electricity: European lessons for Canada

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Ian H. Rowlands

The purpose of this article is to reflect upon this European experience with feed-in tariffs, to stimulate discussions regarding what promise they might hold for the development of solar photovoltaic electricity in Canada.

Design as if People Matter: Aesthetic Guidelines for the Wind Industry

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Paul Gipe

Note: The graphics to this article were lost when my original web site crashed in the fall of 2022. For …