The Ontario Power Authority came out on the weekend with a bit more justification for a proposed reduction in the feed in tariff rate for MicroFIT ground mount solar installations. The long and the short of it is that the authority wants a consistent rate of return in the 11% range for all projects, and this means a necessary adjustment to ground mount systems that produce more energy (According to their press releases). It also put out a list of answers t...

The Ontario Solar Network is holding a town hall meeting in Vaughn, Ontario -- just north of Toronto on July 22nd (see details at this link), to send a message to the OPA and Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure that a sudden proposal to retroactively lower the 80.2 cent feed in tariff for ground mount systems is terrible for the overall stability of the program. The burgeoning solar industry, that has already created hundreds if not thousands of much nee...