Solar could grow jobs here: Jordan
Fri, 10/02/2009
Brockville Recorder and Times
Former Leeds-Grenville MP Joe Jordan is hoping to bring a solar panel manufacturing plant to this region.
Jordan, chief executive officer of the fledgling Upper Canada Solar Generation company, was keynote speaker at the Elizabethtown-Kitley Township Business of the Year award luncheon at the Cedar Valley Golf and Country Club on Thursday.
"We are desperately trying to position ourselves for a panel manufacturing facility," Jordan told more than 60 township officials and businesses owners.
Upper Canada Solar Generation, launched two years ago by five partners including Jordan, has its head office in Elizabethtown-Kitley and has a solar panel test site on County Road 29.
The company's mission is to be a part of the renewable energy revolution by providing a variety of tested and certified products.
"It would fit here," said Jordan of his goal to bring a new panel manufacturing facility here.
"One reason this area is attractive is because of the ice storm (of 1998)," said Jordan.
The devastation left by the storm meant some primary and certainly secondary power infrastructure had to be rebuilt, he explained.
Jordan also told the gathering Upper Canada Solar has filed an application to the Ontario Power Authority for 50 megawatts under the Green Energy and Green Economy Act FIT (Feed-in Tariff) program...