VREC Installation Featured on CBC News
Posted by karen in Front, News, on June 15, 2012A CBC news story yesterday featured a home in Burnaby where VREC installed a photovoltaic (solar energy) system.
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Vancouver School Generates Clean Solar Power
Posted by Rob Baxter in Front, News, on April 18, 2012As part of our commitment to educating the next generation about renewable energy, VREC was proud to be part of an installation at an elementary school in Vancouver. Admiral Seymour Elementary School installed a 2.4 kW grid-tie system on the roof of its east building. It was the first photovoltaic installation on a school in […]
Solar as a back-up “generator”
Posted by karen in Front, News, on March 13, 2012The recent storms and power outages here on BC’s south coast have many people thinking about how to generate power when the grid goes down. A solar photovoltaic (PV) system combined with a battery array is one option to consider.
Fossil Fuel Free Buildings
Posted by karen in Front, News, on February 13, 2012We often have people contact us who are interested in taking their home or commercial building “off the grid.” Taking a building completely off the grid can be difficult and expensive. A more realistic target is a “net-zero” building. This type of building is still connected to the grid but produces as much power as […]
BC Hydro to raise rates paid for renewables
Posted by karen in Front, News, on January 19, 2012BC Hydro has applied to raise the rate paid for electricity generated under the net-metering program. This means that owners of solar photovoltaic, wind or micro-hydro energy systems will receive more for the excess energy they produce. Under the proposal rates will rise from 8.16 to 9.99 cents per kWh.
Solar Panels Shopping Guide
Posted by karen in News, on July 13, 2011VREC was recently interviewed for an online Solar Panel Shopping Guide. Read about it here: http://ecoliving.scotiabank.com/articles/solar-panels-shopping-guide
Solar Panels on Sale
Posted by Rob Baxter in Front, News, on May 20, 2011We have special pricing on select Mitsubishi Solar Photovoltaic panels until the end of the month. Pricing starts at $2.61 / watt (plus shipping and HST) for these premium highly rated modules. Subject to minimum ordering requirements. For more general and updated PV panel pricing, please refer to PV panel sales page. And as always […]
Langley B&B Exports 1 MWh of Clean Energy
Posted by karen in Front, News, on May 6, 2011The Princess and the Pea Bed and Breakfest in Langley yesterday reached the milestone of 1 MWh of clean energy being exported to the BC Hydro grid. VREC installed the solar photovoltaic system that utilizes Day4 Energy panels three years ago. Here is the press release from Princess and the Pea: Langley BC May 5, […]
Solar Electricity in New Westminister
Posted by karen in Front, News, on April 15, 2011VREC helped facilitate the installation of the first solar photovoltaic (electric) grid-tie system in the city of New Westminster. Most of BC is serviced by BC Hydro. BC Hydro has allowed solar photovoltaic connections to its grid for seven years now. But the City of New Westminster has it’s own utility which did not have […]
Savings on Solar Energy
Posted by karen in Front, News, on March 10, 2011Here in BC we have been seeing some benefits from Ontario’s FIT program. We don’t have the great incentives that they have to install solar, but as manufactures start to set up in Ontario it is getting easier and cheaper to purchase their products even here on the west coast. Right now warehouses are being […]