Article: Windsor company sells High Arctic hamlet on solar power

In an isolated community in Canada’s High Arctic, where the sun doesn’t shine three months a year, a Windsor renewable energy company has installed a solar power installation to supply renewable energy in a land of ice and rock.

The sun will set on Grise Fiord at 1:49 p.m. on Oct. 31, and it won’t peek above the horizon again until Feb. 10 at 12:03 p.m. — 15 weeks of 24/7 winter darkness. Why install solar power in Canada’s northernmost hamlet? Part of the answer is that, when the sun does shine on the southern end of Ellesmere Island, it really shines, including four months of around-the-clock sun in the sky from April 24 to Aug. 20.

But Klaus Dohring, president of Green Sun Rising Inc., has another answer. Tapping a few key strokes on his computer, he shows a calculator estimating how much the relatively small 10-kilowatt solar power system his Windsor company installed earlier this month in Grise Fiord translates into future diesel fuel savings.

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