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By Tina Costanza huge wave coming that we’re working on.”
A lberta wants solar power and AltaPro
Electric is responding to the call.
The award-winning Edmonton-based company in
the electrical design-build industry has seen an
increase in demand for solar installations, which
result in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and
savings on electricity bills.
“This past year we’ve seen a lot more (demand)
included in just our regular electrical bids,” says
David DeBruin, Chief Financial Officer of AltaPro
Electric. “There’s definitely an influx coming in
on the municipal side. Most notably some very,
very large ground-mount projects that are all in
the pipeline for Alberta. They’re planned to be
constructed here in 2021 and beyond, so there’s a
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In addition to solar installations, AltaPro Electric
provides a wide range of electrical services that
integrated project delivery to name a few
include design-build, maintenance work, and
Bert DeBruin, the company’s Chief Executive Officer,
founded AltaPro Electric in 1987.
“I was working for another electrical company as a
fourth-year electrician,” Bert explains. “There was no
work really. You drove in every day and then some
days you had work and some days you didn’t, which
didn’t work well, because I had a mortgage at 13 ¾
per cent. So on my off days or when I got sent home
I went into the Yellow Pages and I phoned every
number starting with Aa, on house builders, and by
the time I got to the letter C, I was busy.”