Surging Indigenous renewable projects lead shift to clean energy future
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Remote communities across Canada are pursuing opportunities in renewables that reduce reliance on dirty, expensive diesel
BY TERRI LYNN MORRISON APRIL 20, 2021
Mounting an Indigenous-led clean energy project in Canada’s remote communities takes a special kind of resilience, as best intentions meet the harsh reality of permitting delays, construction deadlines and difficult negotiations with governments and local utilities.
At a recent Gathering of Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE), Nihtat Energy Ltd. president Grant Sullivan gave a master class on the challenges and rewards of installing solar panels in off-grid Nihtat Gwich’in communities in the Northwest Territories.
In two separate projects, Nihtat Energy – a Nihtat Gwich’in development corporation – installed solar panels to provide electricity to the Mackenzie Hotel and the Northmart grocery store in Inuvik. Now, Sullivan is working on two projects that will feed solar power into local diesel-fired grids owned by NWT Power Corp. that serve Aklavik and Inuvik. . . . .
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