Solar panels are a familiar sight on individual homes, but integrating solar generation across an entire residential community remains relatively uncommon in Canada. A recently completed project in Brampton, however, offers a glimpse of how that could change.
The Daniels Corporation, a Toronto-based housing developer, recently completed a 615-kilowatt DC solar photovoltaic (PV) system at MPV2, a year-old condo townhouse community at Bovaird Drive West and Mississauga Road. The system is owned by AltCrest Energy under an energy-as-a-service model — keep reading for more on that — while Otter Energy handled its engineering, design and construction. The copper-coloured solar panels crown MPV2’s six townhome blocks, which sit next to a pair of condo towers rising 11 and 14 storeys.