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Natural Resources committee Well, I—
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee My understanding is that those are Ontario numbers.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee Those figures reflect the contracted numbers going back to 2008 and then going forward, and thus incorporate the 80¢ rates. Again, as I mentioned, the last LRP program, which is now slightly antiquated, was bid at 15¢ for solar. We're projecting forward—I can't get into the exa
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I can't really comment entirely on the actual module manufacturing business, but in general for the solar cells, a typical module panel is made up of 72 cells now for an industrial project. Those are manufactured overseas and will be brought to our facility and assembled on our l
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee That component is put together and sealed together. We have four lines running in Guelph right now, but not full out. All of those cells are soldered together, put together, and shipped to projects. Most of the Canadian-manufactured modules, to my understanding, have been suppo
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee Absolutely. Do you want me to...?
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee On my part, I'm with the project development division of our company and certainly understand the Chinese. Many of our projects are built with modules that are built overseas. We have a facility in Guelph, which is still manufacturing modules, but it's a very difficult market to
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I would say that there is a reality to that vision now. It's a cost—
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee Certainly we are involved with battery-supported technologies, and we see a lot of that. It's a power-density issue and it's a cost-constraint issue. Tying solar to stored hydro, for example, is a good way to understand that you've incurred a footprint; you've had an impact. It's
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I'll take that first. Certainly in general I do agree with Dr. Desrochers' thought process. Not having been a solar guy my entire life, I certainly have had different perspectives on things. That said, as I mentioned earlier, in the last four or five years we've been talking abo
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I can understand a bit.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I do believe that supports our business. We've run the numbers, based on carbon mixtures in certain provinces, and we see that it supports us. We believe there's probably an opportunity, not directly, in terms of how we're offsetting.... For example, Ontario has a very clean ener
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee Thank you for the question. I'll have to respond in English. If I respond in French, it will take too long. From a solar perspective, I feel that we are a little stalled right now. We don't have a lot of new development going on in Canada right now. I know that our microgrid t
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee I'll leave it there. Thank you.
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter
Natural Resources committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and honourable committee members. Thank you for letting Canadian Solar participate in today's committee meeting. My name is Michael Carter. I'm the manager of business development for Canadian Solar's energy group. I'm going to speak about solar ene
March 21st, 2017Committee meeting
Michael Carter