Sustainability Blog
The sustainability blog will periodically highlight initiatives that our sustainability committee is undertaking, including information about our solar panels, and other energy management initiatives!
CBC News: Inglewood Solar Panel System Interview
CBC News has featured the Inglewood Community League's solar panel system during a recent interview with our Director of Technology, Justin Smalley. The interview highlights the solar panel system technology, as well as the league's profits made since the installation...
Solar Year in Review
Our Solar PV Installation has now passed finished its first full year of production as of Oct 30th 2020 and we are pleased to share the results with the community! PRODUCTION Electricity production and consumption is measured in kWh or MWh (1000 kWh = 1 MWh). Our...
Electricity Bill Part 2: Impact of Solar Panels
In Part 1, we explored how to read an electricity bill, and now in Part 2 we will explore the impact our solar panels had on our bill. The Inglewood Community League had its solar panel system installed in October 2019. Now that spring is here, the sun is out longer,...
Electricity Bill Part 1: Understanding Your Bill
Your electricity bill gives a great deal of information, but only if you know what to look for. The most common misconception is that the delivery charges are all fixed fees, and reducing your electricity usage will have little to no impact on your bill. In fact, most...
The Impact of Snow
We've had a fair bit of snow this winter, which has been impacting the production of electricity from our solar installation. This was entirely expected, and according to NAIT, we should only see about 5% drop in production on average over the course of the winter due...
Solar Education for Inglewood Grade 5 Class
The Inglewood Community League and our Solar installer Generate Energy recently hosted the Inglewood Elementary School grade 5 class at the hall for some class about solar energy! Special thanks to Jeremy and Beth from Generate Energy for educating the class about...
First Day of Production!
The system is now operational, and our first full day of production was October 31st, 2019! There were brief periods of full sun at around 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM, but was otherwise unfortunately a relatively cloudy day. We generated 15.7 kWh for this first day, which is...
Solaredge Monitoring Portal
View the current and historical production data from our solar panel installation!