Under the $1.4m contract with a commercial refrigeration service provider in Southern Ontario, Carmanah has designed, supplied and installed solar rooftop PV system.
Located on about 30,000sqft of the facility’s rooftop, the solar array generates about 300,000kWh of clean, carbon-free electricity annually, an amount equivalent to that consumed by 25 average Canadian households.
The rooftop-mounted solar system generates revenue under the refrigeration service provider’s contract with the Ontario Power Authority’s feed-in-tariff (FIT) program.
Carmanah CEO Bruce Cousins said now that the FIT program is in place, it makes financial sense for Ontario corporations to explore renewable energy production as a way to reduce operating expenses, while also delivering on their own sustainability mandates.
"For a high energy user, with plenty of roof space such as a cold storage facility, a rooftop PV system is a smart long term investment," Cousins said.
Carmanah is an engineering, procurement and construction contractor of rooftop photovoltaic facilities in Canada.
