Canada's utility-scale solar market to grow, diversify, says EDF EN

To date, nearly all utility-scale solar development in Canada has taken place in Ontario, grown first on the back of the province’s earlier standing-offer and feed-in tariff programmes, and now through its Large Renewable Procurement (LRP) competitive tender rounds.

EDF EN Canada, a unit of France’s EDF Energies Nouvelles, was a pioneer in the Ontario solar market, building 60MW at half a dozen projects between 2009-2011, much of the capacity eventually sold to Fiera Axium, the Toronto-based infrastructure fund.

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