Olivia Woods
During peak construction in southern Alberta, Canada’s largest solar panel project will create over 1,000 jobs said Dan Balaban, co-founder and CEO of Calgary-based Greengate.
The project will be the size of 1,600 football fields and will include over 1 million solar panels. And it will be funded by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
A total of 150,000 homes will be supplied with electricity thanks to this project.
It is anticipated that Travers Solar, the solar farm currently under construction, will be finished by the fourth quarter of 2022.
“For one: the scale, it’s by far and away the largest solar energy project ever constructed in Canada, [and] one of the largest in the world,” Balaban told CTV’s Your Morning on Monday.
He said it’s also being constructed in Alberta — in the heart of oil country, making it a unique project.
Balaban predicted the oil and gas industry in Canada is “going to continue to be an important part of our economy for the foreseeable future.”
“But it’s extremely important that we find other areas to diversify our economy,” he continued. “We’ve got phenomenal renewable energy resources, some of the best onshore wine in the world, some of the best sunshine in Canada, and I think we’ve got lots of natural advantages.”
Approximately 3,330 acres of land near Vulcan County’s Village of Lomond were prepared for construction in 2017, according to the Travers Solar Project’s website.
“In fact, the solar resources in southern Alberta is as good as the solar resource in Florida for the purposes of producing electricity,” he said.
The project will generate clean energy over its 35+ year lifetime and is going to make a “real difference to the economy and the environment.” said Balaban
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