Solar Stories in Saskatchewan

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...

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, besides the passive...

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...

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...

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,...