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A snowy country like Norway is going to approach solar power in a different way from a place like the Bahamas. It’s not surprising to find out, then, that a company in Norway has developed a “vertical PV” system designed to help deal with very snowy conditions.
Now that company has found its way to Vancouver and is deploying the first such commercial installation in Canada.
The company is Over Easy Solar. The 19.5 kW installation has been installed in the BC Hydro utility district and is being monitored by the utility as it considers whether to roll out vertical PV solar systems around the region.
This installation, fittingly, is on Science World, a museum in the center of Vancouver. It is part of a much broader CAD 39 million ($27.4 million) retrofit of the building that adds insulation inside the building’s dome, air-source heat pumps, and electricity chillers. Across all of the new clean technologies, the museum is expected to reduce its energy use by 42%.
