by Zahra Nurmohamed | Jul 22, 2016 | Community Power, Interviews, Renewable Energy Co-ops
TREC’s recently published report, The Power of Community explores the economic, environmental, and social benefits of locally owned and operated renewable energy initiatives. In general, community owned renewables lead to higher job creation; stronger economic impacts...
by Judith Lipp | Jul 5, 2016 | Community Power
Judith Lipp is the Executive Director of TREC. Read TREC’s recent report – The Power of Community. It’s popular in Ontario to blame green energy for rising electricity bills. The truth is much more complicated, with the prices paid to kick-start a...
by Rebecca Black | Jun 29, 2016 | Community Power, Energy Policy
Rebecca Black is the Co-Chair of TREC. Read TREC’s recent report The Power of Community. Ontario has come a long way in just seven years. Back in 1999, seeing solar panels on a rooftop was a rare sight in this province. And finding one of the couple of dozen...
by Yvonne Ho | Apr 8, 2016 | Community Power, Green Businesses and Economy, Green Homes and Buildings
The following are summaries from the Community Power Report, which regularly posts stories on community-based renewable energy projects taking place all around the world. Boston housing provider help households save on energy bills Jan 5th, 2016 In the Boston area in...
by Yvonne Ho | Dec 16, 2015 | Energy Policy, Renewable Energy Co-ops
The following is a guest post from CanSIA and the Solar Canada Conference, which explores the increase in local, small scale renewable energy co-operatives in Ontario over the past few years, thanks to the start of the Feed-in-Tariff program back in 2009. Renewable...
