Energy management: exchanging experience across borders
A reflection on professional collaboration, illustrated with a photograph of colleagues.
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Atlantic Canada’s Energy Transition
News, analysis and perspectives on the projects, technologies and policies shaping our region.
Coverage of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador by David Brushett, P.Eng. Explore solar, battery storage, electrification, district energy and energy management. Archive articles retain their original publication dates.
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Solar thermal: using sunlight as heat
Solar thermal technology serves a different purpose from photovoltaic electricity generation.
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Courthouse Hill Farm: turning manure into useful energy
A historical farm project illustrates the connection between organic waste, electricity and useful heat.
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Elmsdale’s Intelligent Feeder: an early storage example
A municipal energy group visit explored how utility and household batteries could support renewable integration.
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Cape Breton’s mine-water energy opportunity
A Bayplex diagram illustrates an energy connection between a recreation facility and flooded mine workings.
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Energy management in an arena: Centre 200
A Cape Breton arena provides a practical setting for considering building systems and operating needs together.
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Municipal energy work in Cape Breton
A historical CBRM and Efficiency Nova Scotia partnership provides context for municipal energy management.
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Falling battery costs change the planning picture
Lower storage cost assumptions and higher gas costs are reshaping the relative economics of Nova Scotia’s resource options.
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