Current Projects
Demonstration & Deployment of Innovative Clean Energy Technologies in Remote BC
One of many green initiatives at Siwash Lake Ranch is a project to completely overhaul its existing off-grid power system. To advocate local energy-efficiency and reduce the environmental impacts of electricity generation, the ranch is eliminating fossil-fueled production by installing a primary Solar Power Plant to create clean, renewable energy. Installation will feature a state-of-the-art solar photovoltaic system for electricity to replace the ranch’s existing outdated equipment. Along with a retro-fit of its hot water heating system, and more new technology to capture excess energy from heated water, the ranch is also switching over to solar pumps for irrigation and stock watering systems.
This project will help the BC government promote improved ways of producing and using energy in BC’s remote off-grid communities and rural residences. It will further the production of local, clean and renewable energy to reduce diesel electric generation and will focus on the use of advanced solar heating technologies, and electricity self-generation.
The ranch is well poised to help promote sustainable practices in BC. The place is ideally situated for a demonstration site and will open as such within a year of technology installation. A handbook for retro-fits will be designed for end-users, and the ranch will facilitate educational workshops.
With nature-based tourism as one of BC’s leading industries, Siwash sets the perfect stage for displaying the province’s green legacy. As an internationally-renowned, high-end tourism operation, the ranch will showcase, worldwide, the BC government’s target of “electricity self-sufficiency by 2016”. By providing a shining light example for small businesses, BC’s tourism industry and agricultural community; for rural residents in the province, the goal is to help demonstrate to fellow British Columbians that clean energy is accessible and viable for all of these sectors.
Siwash has chosen another BC small business, EA Energy Alternatives Ltd., based in Victoria, as lead for technology systems design and installation. The project is supported by the Province's Innovative Clean Energy (ICE) Fund (see Approved Projects). The ranch is currently seeking sponsors for the educational phases of this project. For more information, please Contact Us.