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A dozen Inuvik residents joined Arctic Energy Alliance staff at the Inuvik Centennial Library to learn about solar installation in the Northwest Territories. 

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The NWT is at the leading edge in the Biomass Industry.

Over the last year, many groups have worked on the  Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation community 35 kW solar PV installation.

Whati is planning to install a biomass district heating system. 

The Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation’s new Wood Master Boiler in Kakisa is now in its final stages of installation.

An Energy Management Specialist from the Arctic Energy Alliance’s Yellowknife Office was in Norman Wells to help promote the solar demonstration trailer.

Arctic Energy Alliance provided the Folk on the Rocks crew with the use of one of our solar demonstration kits to use as a cell phone charging station during the festival. 

The Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) is pleased to issue the first rebates under the Alternative Energy Technologies Program since taking on the administration of this program for the GNWT in late spring of this year.  

The Arctic Energy Alliance is pleased to commission the 5 solar demonstration systems purchased with the generous support of the GNWT Environment and Natural Resources Department. 

Arctic Energy Alliance staff attended the Fort McPherson Biomass Project stakeholders meeting.

GNWT Environment & Natural Resources Alternative Energy Specialists, Wade Carpenter and Brian Pelkey, recently visited the Dehcho.

Arctic Energy Alliance is please to announce that we will be taking over the administration of some of the Alternative Energy Technologies Program. 

A visit to the Greenstone Building in Yellowknife was organized on March 13th, 2014.

During March, Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) was pleased to host Lawrence Keyte, who is in the second year of a Master's in Sustainability Studies at Trent University, researching energy resilience in northern communities. 

The Northwest Territories Biomass Energy Association was created by private sector business and trades people with a pecuniary interest in the biomass energy sector.

Arctic Energy Alliance continues to work with its Community Liaison Worker in Fort Providence, Roland Nadli, and nurture his deep interest for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

As fuel and electricity prices in NWT communities march ever upwards and Northerners become more energy conscious, a move to renewable sources of heat and power is spreading across the Northwest Territories.

Late this summer, the Arctic Energy Alliance (AEA) commissioned five solar demonstration systems to Windsor, Ontario based Green Sun Rising.

On July 16, 2013, Arctic Energy Alliance’s (AEA) Regional Energy Project Coordinators Donald Andre & Wayne Lennie accompanied Canadian Solar Institute trainer Mario Borsato on a day trip to Tsiigehtchic and Fort McPherson. 

The Arctic Energy Alliance is releasing the ongoing monitoring data of the Solar Air Heating System at the Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife.

The Arctic Energy Alliance recently facilitated the monitoring setup for the SolarWall^® façade at the Aurora Research Institute (ARI), Inuvik.

Ken Baigent and Nick Walker from AEA’s Yellowknife office attended the Renewables in Remote Micro grids Conference held in Toronto during the last week of May.

AEA is releasing 4 new short videos exploring biomass-fuelled district heating systems in 3 NWT communities – Fort Providence, Behchoko and Yellowknife.