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There’s been a lot of “doom and gloom” messaging surrounding the utility market in recent years. Sky-high electricity prices are the number one concern for Ontario voters, placing the existing provincial government at an all-time low at the polls (despite…

Rural Co-Ops and Public Utilities Have Voluntarily Built Nearly 100MW of Community Solar. Here’s Why. Three successful models are driving community solar projects around America. BY THOMAS GULLEY – AUGUST 11, 2017 In 2015, a farmer walked into the office…

There is no denying the Global Adjustment (GA) fee has done a great deal of good for Ontario. As an environmentally-focused company, the team at Spark Power applauds the Ontario government’s elimination of coal-based power generation and investment in green…

Canadians love solar energy. According to the Renewable Energy Alliance of Ontario, some 80 percent of Ontarians said “yes” to surveys when asked if they’d like to see the province generate more solar power. But, not all of those survey…

More than 600 North American power sector executives participated in Utility Dive’s 2017 industry survey, and 57 percent of them cited “aging workforce” as an important industry issue .  Other vital concerns include aging infrastructure, renewables integration and stagnant load…

Let’s imagine you operate a manufacturing facility producing 500 widgets an hour. Now imagine your facility experiences a power outage for two hours; you would be down 1000 widgets. What could you do to resolve the shortage? One option might…

Many major operational costs follow a straightforward pricing model: Your company pays for the amount of product it uses. End of story. Makes sense – right? Unfortunately, energy consumption is one operational cost that follows a different model. Instead of…

How much does it cost when electrons stop flowing in your facility? If you were a data centre, you would have lost more than $740,000 USD in 2016 due to outages. That’s the figure calculated by the Ponemon Institute, an…