Indigenous-owned solar farm opens in remote northern Alberta community

        November 19, 2020 CBC | Canada | renewables: solar

A new 5,760-panel, 2.2-MW solar farm will supply around 25% of the power to the 1,000 residents of Fort Chipewyan in northeast Alberta. The farm replaces 800,000 litres of diesel/year, which was trucked in by ice road and river barge from Fort McMurray. With global warming, the ice road is becoming unreliable as the north warms 3 times faster than average.