The program was the first of its kind in north america.
Solar energy ontario program.
Most energy programs require an ontario secondary school diploma ossd or equivalent.
Citation needed thanks to the fit program ontario was the home of what was temporarily the largest solar farm in the world in october 2010 until surpassed by larger farms in china and india.
The overall goal is to defer the need for ontario to add generation facilities and solar is clean reliable and empowers residents to take control of the power.
However there are some other energy incentives available to homeowners.
Thanks to generous feed in tariff programs solar energy really took off in the province.
Energy systems program requirements.
The ontario power authority opa has developed a feed in tariff fit program for the province of ontario to encourage and promote greater use of renewable energy sources.
Technology and its implementation in ontario.
All ontario utilities support the use of solar to help homes and businesses to reduce their consumption of utility power.
These include wind waterpower renewable biomass bio gas landfill gas and solar photovoltaic solar pv for electricity generating projects in ontario the microfit program is a stream of the fit program.
However applications are limited each year.
With share solar there are 3 options to go solar.
This program is called share solar but is also known as the ontario free solar program to most people.
Graduates in these programs will have high level knowledge on maintaining and servicing wind turbines solar energy panels and other equipment associated with alternative energy.
For select hydro communities.
With the introduction of a feed in tariff fit in 2009 ontario became a global leader for solar energy projects.
Residential solar program unfortunately alberta s province wide solar incentive program has recently ended.
Renewable energy incentive programs.
The fit program is north america s first comprehensive guaranteed pricing structure for renewable energy production and it standardizes many aspects of renewable energy installations.
While those feed in tariff programs are now closed homeowners and businesses in ontario will soon benefit from the new greenon solar rebate program coming summer 2018.
The microfit program is for projects with a capacity of 10 kilowatts or less.
Ontario is the leader for grid connected pv systems in canada.
Banff solar production incentive the town of banff currently offers a 0 75 per watt rebate on solar energy systems.
The only solar rebate program that was available to ontario homeowners was the greenon solar rebate program however this was cancelled by the current conservative provincial government.
The fit program is for larger projects.