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Sundancer Grand Opening
want to capture—and we have a lot of a land base for the PAMZ Blue Skies Award for Innovation and
that we can use in order to build our own renewable application of technology to reduce energy use and
solar energy farm.” air pollution. NGCI is currently looking to start the
construction process to expand the project to 2MW
Currently, NGCI oversees a 64 KW Solar energy capacity in the same location.
site which powers up one of the community’s main
community buildings that houses a Canada Post Next on the horizon is an 80MW project for which
and a CIBC. In Addition, there is a 1 MW solar project NGCI has invited DNV GL Energy to present a multi-
called the Neyaskweyahk Sundancer. Powered up scope proposal.
March of 2020, it was constructed by Calgary-based
Sky Fire Energy, and generates energy that is sold to “This proposal was accepted and is currently 80
Alberta’s grid. The project was recently nominated per cent complete,” says Ward-Caisse. “DNVGL has
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