Greg is director of Community and Corporate Development in the Town of  Raymond, Alberta. The municipality was told that solar wouldn’t work on the buildings in their town but that didn’t stop them from going solar… the the effect of completely covering their municipal buidlings’ energy consumption – the first in Canada!

Raymond is a town of 4,200 people located an hour south of Lethbridge and about an hour north of the U.S. border. This is farming country where the sun shines more than any other place in Canada. The town was interested in solar to help reduce their utility bills, so they hired a consultant to prepare a report.

Unfortunately, the report at that time turned out to be negative indicating that their buildings were not well suited for solar modules. So, they “kind of moved on,” according to Greg. Then they noticed their friendly rivals in Cardston (just an hour west) were installing solar. So, the town hired the same consultants Cardston was using and they went to the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre for advice and financial support. Read more on their story HERE.