Annual General Meeting
Our annual general meeting!
Where: NSCC Woodside Campus
When: The evening of June 21, 2018
Details TBA - check back here or get on our mailing list to be notified!
Halifax Spring Home Show
Please join us at the Halifax Home Show, April 6, 7, 8, 2018, 200 Prospect Rd, Goodwood - 10 minutes south of Halifax
There'll be solar experts and enthusiasts on hand all the time is show is open.The Solar Nova Scotia booth is Booth #729. Booth is in the back hall, centre isle to the very back row on the left
There will be two presentations on solar design and solar energy by Don Roscoe:- Saturday, April 7, 11am - 1pm.
- Sunday, April 8: 2pm - 4pm.
Bridgwater / Halifax Passive Solar Home Design Course
Solar Nova Scotia offers practical courses on designing and building Solar Homes and Additions
The Passive Solar Home Design Course is intended for the general public and, for those in design and construction. The instructor is a 40 year experienced solar designer-builder, Don Roscoe.
Atlantic Canada Solar Study Nearing Completion
You can still participate in the survey for the Atlantic Canada Solar Study until April 10, 2018.
1986 article about Solar Nova Scotia
1986 article in New Works magazine by Pamela Young.
Young interviews Dr John Young and Vaughn Munroe about solar in Nova Scotia, and Solar Nova Scotia. Dr Peter Allen about Thermodynamics. Young talks about his rubber-hose solar collector, a state-change-salt storage medium in a greenhouse. Don Roscoe talks about low-footprint living, his passive home design.
Solar Construction Course
One-day PASSIVE SOLAR CONSTRUCTION COURSE.
This course is intended for those wishing to design and build a PASSIVE SOLAR HOME with an air recirculated heat storage slab.
- PASSIVE SOLAR BASICS
- GROUND INSULATION instead of frost walls
- HEAT STORAGE SLAB construction techniques and details
- AIR RECIRCULATION and FILTRATION SYSTEM design and components
- SYSTEM BALANCING and CONTROLS
WHERE: Nova Scotia Institute of Technology, Leeds St., Halifax
Solar Shelter Course
The Passive Solar Home Design Course is intended for the general public and, for those in design and construction. The instructor is a 40 year experienced solar designer-builder, Don Roscoe.
How To Build A Solar USB Charger
This document helps you build a system to charge mobile devices via USB with energy from a solar panel. It includes a large section on how to use the RETScreen tool to analyze your power needs and turn those into battery and panel requirements. The plans were created by the Fall 2017 class of the Nova Scotia Community College Introduction to Renewable Energy program.
Designs posted by Solar Nova Scotia are done so without liability of Solar Nova Scotia or the authors.
Province of Nova Scotia to Announce Community Solar Projects November 10
November 8, 2017
The Province of Nova Scotia will announce the successful bidders in its Solar Electricity for Community Buildings Program on Friday, November 10, 2017. This community solar program invites eligible organizations to apply for a 20-year contract to sell solar electricity to their electric utility.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Study to Accelerate Solar Industry in Atlantic Canada
Solar Nova Scotia Study to Accelerate Solar Energy Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Halifax November 6, 2017