Power for the people: N.S. town creating ‘solar garden’
Just three towns in Nova Scotia still have their own electric utility separate from Nova Scotia Power.
Besides a hydro-electric dam, the Town of Berwick is looking at how to generate a new type of electricity — solar power.
“We have wind now and our hydro dam and we’re looking to become as renewable as we can, so solar seems to be the next step,” Clarke tells NEWS 95.7’s The Todd Veinotte Show.
Clarke says the cost of solar panels has been going down in recent years, and the town’s staff are considering investing in solar panels in partnership with Antigonish and Mahone Bay – the only other towns in the province with their own electric utility.