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Alberta marketplaces is we’re a fairly small needle big items that are changing that you’ve got to keep
in the haystack for volume, so when they design up to date with — electronic components for the
these products sometimes they don’t always work inverters and all the other software and dashboards.
out with our code. We’re always trying to make But the solar modules themselves are very stable.
sure itʻs compliant with our code or if our code They’re not the item that changes or breaks.
needs updating to keep it up to date with new Solar modules always get the question, ‘Does hail
technologies damage them?’ and the answer is, ‘No.’ We monitor
quite a few sites all over Alberta and through all the
Bert, who serves on the safety codes council, adds hail storms, and we’ve never lost the module. If we
that solar has been dominating the agenda because lose it, it’s because someone’s thrown a hammer at
there’s been so many changes. it or something like that. It’s very resilient.”
“I'm a representative from the electrical contractor BUSINESS CHALLENGES
association, and I sit on that board as a AND SUCCESSES
representation. And my job is not just solar but any
kind of electrical stuff that doesn’t make sense. In addition to keeping up with changes in the
We try and provide some input in there to make it industry, another challenge AltaPro Electric has
work for the industry and catch up with all the new faced is when electrical work is completed by
technology that keeps coming through,” Bert says. general labourers.
In terms of the solar modules themselves, David “I’m trying to find ways to get this sorted,” Bert says.
says there’s been some improvements, but not in “The challenge we have is that we get companies
leaps and bounds in terms of efficiency. coming in from different places, and even local
firms provincially that are trying to do these jobs
“It’s a fairly stable technology,” he says. “It’s the with labourers rather than electricians, so they’re
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