Nice little piece on this all electric net zero build: vancouversun.com/homes/net-ze...
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Chris Higgins
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Solar PV inverters about to drop in price in Canada and the EU? www.pv-magazine.com/2026/07/29/f...
Another day, another plug in balcony solar inverter comes to market: pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/17/a...
Nice to see the BC to Yukon and Alberta Intertoes named cleantechnica.com/2026/07/13/c...
Nice to see this clean mobility pilot that provides transit passes, electric car-sharing and EV education to low-income Indigenous urban-area tenants! electricautonomy.ca/policy-regul...?
BC Hydro entering a big build period. Along side the wind farms approved it looks like the Site E hydro electric dam is to be studied along with a larger dam near Powell River: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The bike ride and “die-in” in memory of fallen Complete Streets Planner Riley O’Neil was a life-affirming event. "No more people should die in the streets because their lives are not valued as much as driver convenience," said one organizer. @bikegridnow.org @chicritmass.bsky.social
Solar power gets cheaper still: pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/05/14/c...
BC very fortunate to have good snowpack in large Hydro generating regions this year.
Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦BC in a very different position relative to their WECC neighbours when it comes to snowpack this year.
Batteries are coming for your baseload business case and it is going to be great!
Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦This truly is mind-bogglingly cheap. Pays off arbitraging simple TOU rates. And also opens up a myriad of possibilities to self-power and go off-grid in most of the world. Brave new world…
Two weeks! Amazing. Would love to understand how Texas does the permit? What process do you have @bryangodbe.bsky.social ? Give it to me. I'll push Vancouver to copy it.
Bryan Godben Texas, we routinely connect a residential solar-plus-storage system in under two weeks. In North Carolina, an identical job can take 70 days. In Nevada, it took me 5 months! pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/29/d...