Broadway Theatre Solar Project

Broadway theatre
Solar Energy icon

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

Kirby Wirchenko

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

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.

Explore other community projects:

Michael Street solar array

Michael Street Solar Project

This 149 kW DC system is mounted on the roof of Arnie's Food Services in an industrial area of Ottawa. Panels provided by Canadian Solar cover 25,000-square-feet of rooftop space overlooking a serene park and church. The Michael Street Project has been producing 100% clean solar electricity since September 2013.

Read more
OREC solar array

Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-operative Solar Projects

The Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-operative (OREC) develops community-based green energy projects such as solar panels on schools and housing co-ops—and Bullfrog is helping the co-op build community support.

Read more

Join the 20,000 subscribers who care about the future of renewable energy 

Sign up for the eBuzz, our newsletter featuring green energy updates, new product information, and stories from the community projects we support.