To find someone who can help you design and install a renewable energy system that is tailored exactly to your needs, please see the list of renewable energy installers.

Below are a number of renewable energy links, some for Canada, some more general. Some more interesting than others, we hope they are useful for you.

Discussion Forum

• Green Power Talk - For discussing wind, solar, and hydro power, sustainable building and more

Ontario FIT/MicroFIT Links

• Ontario's FIT and MicroFIT programs;  54.9 cents per kWh for photovoltaic (solar) and 11.5 cents per kWh for wind
• Hydro-One's Form C; used for applying for a grid connection
• HydroOttawa's connection request form; used for applying for a grid connection
• Green Power Talk Forum; thread discussing "Things your PV installer should be telling you"
• Green Power Talk Forum; thread showing a 5.7kW rooftop MicroFIT installation in detail
• Switch Ontario; lots of good MicroFIT information, such as realistic Return-On-Investment numbers etc.
• Natural Resources Canada photovoltaic potential and solar resource data for Canada
• PVWatts solar energy and solar income estimator by NREL; use 75% for "DC to AC derate factor"

Wind Atlas / Wind Resource Maps

• North American wind atlas, enter address or click on map to navigate
• USA wind atlas and another USA wind atlas
• Canada wind atlas, click on the map to drill down to your specific location
• New Brunswick wind atlas
• Nova Scotia wind atlas
• Ontario wind atlas

Solar Resource Maps

• Interactive solar (photovoltaic) potential and insolation map for Canada
• NRC database: Search solar resource by municipality

USA Renewable Energy Incentives

• DSIRE, Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
• Federal 30% tax credit for wind and solar; known as the Obama stimulus package
• California's Emerging Renewables Program pays $2.50/Watt for wind
• California feed-in-tariffs for renewable energy
• Nevada's WindGenerations program pays $15,000 for a Scirocco ($2.50/Watt)
• Oregon rebate of $4,500 per meter of rotor diameter
• Washington state feed-in-tariff of $0.12 - $1.08 per kWh for renewable energy

Canada Renewable Energy Incentives

• Look up all local, provincial, and federal incentives for your particular location
• ecoEnergy for Renewable Energy pays 1 cent per kWh for RE, for business and institutions
• Ontario's FIT and MicroFIT programs;  54.9 cents per kWh for photovoltaic (solar) and 11.5 cents per kWh for wind
• Ontario annual net metering for small renewable energy installations up to 500 kW
• Alberta net metering for renewable energy installations up to 150 kW
• British Columbia annual net metering for renewable energy installations up to 50 kW
• Nova Scotia annual net metering for renewable energy installations up to 100 kW
• Prince Edward Island annual net metering for renewable energy installations up to 100 kW
• Quebec 24 months net metering for renewable energy installations up to 50 kW
• Saskatchewan net metering and 35% rebate for RE installations up to 100kW
• Paul Gipe's list of Canada RE tariffs

More Canada Links

• St. Lawrence College, an education to RE technician
• Canadian Wind Energy Association
• Environment Canada climate normals, including average wind speed
• A consumer guide to greenpower in Canada
• Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
• Ontario Landowner's Guide to Wind Energy
• Canadian Solar Industries Association
• Solar Energy Society of Canada
• Natural Resources Canada
  • An Introduction to Stand-Alone Wind Energy Systems
  • Stand-Alone Wind Energy Systems: A Buyer´s Guide
  • Micro-Hydropower systems: A Buyers Guide
  • An Introduction to Residential Earth Energy Systems
  • Residential Earth Energy Systems: A Buyer´s Guide
  • An Introduction to Solar Water Heating Systems
  • Solar Water Heating Systems: A Buyer´s Guide
  • Introduction to Photovoltaic (Solar Electric) Systems
  • Photovoltaic Systems: A Buyer´s Guide

USA Links

• American Wind Energy Association
• The Small Wind Guide for consumers from the Department of Energy

Educational Wind Links

• Our own "The Truth About Small Wind Turbines", a must-read if you are considering a wind turbine
• Home Power Magazine, an excellent information source for renewable energy
  • An introduction to wind power for beginners
  • Wind power and birds
  • Tower economics, get the most out of your (expensive) tower
  • Wind site analysis
  • Apples and Oranges, a comparison and discussion of various wind turbines
  • Big wind power
• How wind turbines work, by the Danish Wind Energy Association
  • Wind turbine siting
  • Nice interactive calculator to see the effect of obstacles
• Paul Gipe's excellent site with general wind power information, small and large
• Hugh Piggott's excellent DIY wind turbine site
• Another Hugh Piggott, his wind power course
• Otherpower's DIY wind power site, build your own turbine!
• The Back Shed, DIY wind from Down Under
• Wikipedia's entry on wind turbines, a good primer on turbine technology
• Energy Technology Data Exchange, RE related publications, free access for Canadians
• The cost of wind, price of wind, value of wind - a good article showing wind's competitiveness

More Wind Energy Links

• Eoltec's site in France, the maker of the Scirocco
• Wind total installed energy, per country
• Dealing with wind energy and Zoning Boards
• Wind turbines and noise

Solar Energy Links

• How to do your own solar site survey
• Solar Buzz, the world of solar energy
• Renewable Energy Access

Software

• RETScreen, renewable energy project analysis tool
• HOMER, NREL's evaluation tool for renewable energy

Other Stuff

• Taking care of your home, energy efficiency, and renewable energy information
• Measurement converter, to go from m/s to km/h or mi/h, will actually convert almost anything
• GotWind.org, the DIY renewable energy resource