Alberta’s Sustainable Energy Technologies has something to be excited about. The company announced that much of the microFIT market in Ontario could possibly be theirs for the taking. Since their SUNERGY inverters are the only known products to be CSA certified for outdoor-rated inverters in its class, by their estimates, 200-MW of solar energy could be produced using their technology through 2011. Read more about SET’s future.

Fortis has plans to construct a 355-MW hydroelectric facility together with two BC-owned corporations, providing is customers with green energy. The project, which comes with a price tag of about $900 million will produce approximately 630 gigawatt hours of energy which will be sold to BC Hydro under a long-term energy purchase agreement. See more.

The US Department of Defense has some serious issues with wind turbines, stating that they “pose an unacceptable risk to training, testing and national security in certain regions”. Already the DOD has opposed proposals, including one near Barstow, California. See more.

From software giant to advisor on the American Energy Innovation Council, Bill Gates is lobbying for some big dollars to be put into R&D, something he knows a thing about. Read this article on MIT’s Technology Review.

Finavera, a small wind company in BC, has sold a good portion of its stake in an Irish wind far, freeing up some much needed capital for projects at home. Read more.

The debate is still raging on which is better, replacing liquid with liquid or going to the plug. See this article on what Greentechmedia found.

Nova Scotia has been quietly setting out ambitious targets for green energy, targets that surpass California’s. The Premier was even recently presented an award, at the Copenhagen meetings last December, for making North America’s first law on hard capping carbon emissions. Climate change is clearly important for the province that historically has strong links to coal. See more.

As the Quebec shuts down major cogeneration electricity plants, hemoraging money while it does so, the province is still forging ahead with costly plans to build more hydro dams and clean energy projects. Consumers’ groups and Quebec have been butting heads over unfair consumer burden and future energy needs, like those from electric cars. Read more.