Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic
They can save diesel, but at a cost
The Sayisi Dene First Nation seems like a bad spot for a solar farm. It gets about half as many hours of sunshine as a place like Arizona. Any solar panels installed there will produce less than half as much electricity. And yet the Canadian government has committed C$300m ($215m) to pointing panels at grey, sub-Arctic skies, not just in Manitoba, but across the country’s dark north.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Dark solar”
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