Jan 12, 2026 | Stories
I’ve been interested in renewable energy for 20 years+ and have done lots of experimenting over the years with small set ups for lighting and charging power tool batteries etc. In January of 2022 we got Prairie Sun Solar to install a rooftop 10.1 kw system on our...
Sep 26, 2025 | Stories
In 2014, we decided it was time to install solar panels at our home. We had already done a lot of work to reduce energy use in our home – both heating and electrical energy. Next, we wanted to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Our system was designed to produce...
May 2, 2025 | Stories
We have been living for the past three decades in ways that we hoped would lower our impact on the environment — the size of our “ecological footprint”. In 1995-96 we built a passive solar, post and beam, straw-bale house. Our energy sources,...
Apr 2, 2025 | Stories
In 2020, we installed 24 x 370 w solar panels (8880 w total) on the garage roof, half facing east and half facing west. Four extra panels were required to account for not being able to face the panels optimally to the south. The total cost was $20,290 less the $5,470...
Mar 24, 2025 | Stories
In 2016 I decided I wanted to do something positive about climate change. It turns out that the top two pathways to a low carbon economy are greening the electric grid and the electrification of transportation. I looked around my employer’s activities and nothing was...
Mar 12, 2025 | Stories
Glenn and Shannon Wright live on a farm about 30 km west of Saskatoon, SK. They moved to the farm from Saskatoon in 2004. When they moved to the farm, they noticed that the chimney from the gas furnace needed to be replaced. Being handy, they replaced it themselves,...
