Broadway Theatre Solar Project

Solar | Community project we're supporting

Partner: Broadway Theatre

Even though Saskatchewan is Canada’s sunniest province—it has very few solar projects. A local Saskatoon theatre, its solar project and local community leader, Kirby Wirchenko are poised to change this. Wirchenko, the Executive Director of the Broadway Theatre, championed the idea to install an 88-panel solar array on the Theatre—an historic building originally built in World War II for veterans. At one point, the building was an “adult” movie theatre! Today, more than 50% of the building is now powered by renewables, demonstrating that solar is powerful, plentiful and within reach in Saskatchewan. Bullfrog provided financing for the project.

Read our Currents of Change profile with Kirby Wirchenko, Executive and Artistic Director of Broadway Theatre

Kirby Wirchenko

“Saskatoon is one of the sunniest cities in North America—but we don’t have a ton of solar energy projects.”

About our community projects

Activists and organizers across the country are working to transition their communities away from fossil fuels. We created our community-based green energy projects grant to provide critical funding for these local efforts.

All bullfrogpowered customers help fund these small-scale, community-led projects, including solar panels on schools and in Indigenous communities, education and training programs, and a cleantech accelerator.

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Xeni Gwet’in Solar Projects

Located in B.C.'s picturesque Nemaiah Valley, the Xeni Gwet'in First Nation relies primarily on diesel fuel for energy. Bullfrog is supporting the expansion of the group's solar energy generation capacity to help reduce its dependence on fossil fuel-based energy sources.