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Partner: Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-operative (OREC)

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. OREC partners with local property owners to use their land or rooftops for community-owned renewable power projects—benefitting the land owners, co-op members and the environment. With a contribution from Bullfrog Power, OREC will continue to build community support for renewable energy projects in Eastern Ontario.

Learn more about the project.

Read our Currents of Change profile with
Janice Ashworth, Operations Manager, OREC

Janice Ashworth

Janice Ashworth

“Schools are a perfect location for renewable energy projects because they are community hubs.”
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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:

cSPACE

cSPACE King Edward Solar Project

cSPACE Projects, a Calgary-based organization that fosters creative collaboration between local artists and designers, is transforming the former King Edward School site into a collaboration space for dozens of small organizations. cSPACE plans to install a 7 kW solar PV system on the facility to help reduce its energy requirements, with Bullfrog Power...

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Earlton community centre

Earlton Recreation Centre Solar Project

To bolster its energy independence, the Town of Timiskaming built a 250 kW solar array on its Earlton Recreation Centre—with support from Bullfrog customers.

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