Sun-Powered Legislature

The Alberta Legislature is the first legislative building in Canada to use solar power. Twenty-three solar modules were installed on the roof of the building's power plant to provide part of the Legislature's electrical needs.

Climate Change Central facilitated the installation for the Alberta Environment project. Alberta Infrastructure will own and manage the array.

"We used the project as a learning experience," says Simon Knight, President and CEO, Climate Change Central. "It not only showed us the barriers we need to break in terms of a national electrical code, it demonstrated the value of solar energy as an alternative power source."

The solar array was one step in Alberta's action plan on climate change. In 2005, the Alberta government pledged to buy 90 per cent of its electricity from green power sources.