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Exhibition seeks bids for solar panels
The board of governors at Exhibition Place is pushing ahead with the next phase of an ambitious solar-power project that will see the roof of the 44-year-old Better Living Centre covered with sun-catching panels.
A request for bids to install a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic system, big enough to provide electricity to about 800 homes, was issued earlier this month. Prospective suppliers will be taken on a tour of the grounds today to get a more detailed briefing. Final bids are due on April 10.
The initiative will build on an existing pilot project that saw a 100-kilowatt solar system built atop the historical Horse Palace in summer 2006. Victoria-based Carmanah Technologies Inc. built that system for about $1 million.
This time around Exhibition Place doesn’t want to own the system. It just wants to show it off.
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