A quick trip to SW Ontario is an excellent way to see the many new green electricity installations. Especially on the Lake Erie shore it's clear that more and more farmers are "Cash Cropping the Sun" with sun-tracking photovoltaic systems and "Harvesting the Wind" with wind turbines.
On a cycling trip in the area last week, I was pleased to see many farmers are investing in green energy to supplement their regular incomes from growing mostly corn and soy plus a few fields of asparagus, ginseng, sugar beets, carrots, cabbage, potatoes. Hopefully green energy will supplant income from killer tobacco crops. There, but harder to see, are the biomass projects and geothermal systems being installed.
Around Toronto, too, more and more people are generating green energy, especially because of the premium prices paid by Ontario's microFit program. My household has applied to install a 5Kw system and we are awaiting approval with anticipation. Ideally, Toronto should produce most of its own electricity locally.
A quick and easy way to generate some green energy is to install a solar hot water system. The evacuated tube system Greensaver installed on our house last year works great, giving us "guilt-free" hot water all year, even in winter. How sweet!
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