Green Energy News: Canada puts on pressure to phase out coal

[Sheryle Carlson]

Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2320360820100623


Up Next: Green Jobs
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/06/25/14519991.html
Ontario is getting so much attention from European and North American
manufacturers it's "turning heads in other provinces. Alberta is now
looking (at the Ontario Green Energy Act and feed-in tariff program).
What is going on in Ontario is hard not to notice," (Tim Weiss) added.


Energy transformation - A leaky, older home in the Glebe promises to
become one of the most energy-efficient homes in Canada
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Energy+transformation/3204333/story.html
Promising to make this nothing less than one of the most energy-
efficient retrofits of a single-family home in Canada, Demark plans to
push that EnerGuide rating to a perfect 100, cut energy consumption by
90 per cent, and install a hulking 10,000-litre cistern in the
basement to capture rainwater for use in toilets and to irrigate the
garden.

The retrofitted home will include a three-kilowatt photovoltaic solar
system on the roof. Demark plans to feed the electricity generated by
the system into the grid under Ontario's microFIT program for
renewable energy from small producers. Under the plan, producers sell
the electricity to the Ontario Power Authority at 80 cents a kilowatt
hour and buy back what they need at standard homeowner rates.


Clean energy: wanted everywhere but in the latest G20 text
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?193988%2FG20-Longer-on-platitudes-shorter-on-delivery