2026-06-16 01:57 UTC
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@jrhawley@toot.cafe 2026-06-16 02:45
@mgifford@mastodon.social I love this! Community-focused work and educating on electrification, without unnecessary pressure, sounds like a great idea. Nice work putting the website together. It looks great and is really clear
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@BillySmith@social.coop 2026-06-16 04:21
@mgifford@mastodon.social There are local energy co-operatives that have been crowd-funding using Bond Issues via Ethex: https://www.ethex.org.uk/
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@jd@ottawa.place 2026-06-16 14:01
@mgifford@mastodon.social Mike, the number of boosts points to a deep demand here.
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@cassey@ottawa.place 2026-06-17 02:57
@mgifford@mastodon.social note that the Greener Homes Grant project is no longer active :( There's really not a lot currently of incentives available for installing solar that help with the up front costs, as far as I could tell when I looked into it recently. Also are you familiar with OSEAN? https://ottawasouthecoactionnetwork.squarespace.com/ Also For Our Kids Ottawa https://www.forourkids.ca/ottawa_gatineau
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@icanbob@techhub.social 2026-06-17 10:31
@mgifford@mastodon.social Great idea. Depends on what your goal is. If it is climate optimization dumping solar electrons onto a JIT grid isn’t the best use. https://energyasicit.ca/solarPVpaper2/ https://energyasicit.ca/EnergyVision/
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@mradcliffe@nokoto.org 2026-06-18 02:17
Re: What if neighbours worked together to make solar, battery backup, and home electrification easier and more affordable? @mgifford@mastodon.social The group-buying initiative local to me helped me get solar. Another link for the wiki, unfortunately US-based, is https://switchtogether.com (related to the Solar United Neighbors (SUN) link someone else posted). But probably similar information about the group-buying process. It seems the efforts through this initiative went through a city government sustainability group. And they're also partnering with SUN this year, and it’s about a 20% sales discount as opposed to the 30% US federal tax credit that ended last year. I’m surprised at the low amount of program participants since...
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@sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca 2026-06-18 02:52
@mgifford@mastodon.social Mike this is awesome! 😊
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@TAV@mindly.social 2026-06-18 12:25
@mgifford@mastodon.social as an apartment renter, with interests in all you are trying to do, I hope this kind of thing will eventually be applied to this type of dwelling too.