Nelson Community Solar Garden

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Solar | Community project we're supporting

Partner: City of Nelson

Thanks in part to support from bullfrogpowered customers, the City of Nelson is now home to Canada’s first solar community solar garden project. The 60 kW installation employs an innovative “virtual net-metering” subscription model to give Nelson citizens a way to support community-scale solar. Participants of the project hope to showcase the future of how Canadians can support renewable energy projects in their community.

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Read our Currents of Change profile with members of the community

Nelson solar garden

Kim Horrocks (and others!)

“I especially hope that the younger generation sees that when everyone gets together for the environment, change can happen.”
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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:

Escarpment solar build

Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy Solar Project

Bullfrog partnered with the Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy (EBC) to help build a solar roof on EBC’s Alvar Bay Nature Reserve Cabin. The Alvar Bay Reserve is part of the Conservancy’s lands designated for protection, and is also a Monarch Way Station.

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Gabriola Commons solar

Gabriola Commons Community Centre

Once a goat cheese farm, the Gabriola Commons is now a grassroots organization focused on preserving and enriching the local environment and community. Bullfrog Power and the Regional District of Nanaimo have partnered with The Commons to help make their new solar project possible.

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