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Strawberries and Asparagus Solar Tour featured in The Globe and Mail

June 14, 2008

 

Solar-power advocates look to spread message

‘I want people to … know it’s out there and it works’

 

JAMIE KOMARNICKI

From Friday’s Globe and Mail

June 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM EDT

People passing by Jed Goldberg’s midtown Toronto home tend to do a double-take, craning their necks to see the assorted panels, tubes and other equipment on its roof.

The solar-powered systems heat water and provide electricity to Mr. Goldberg’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom detached house near Bathurst Street and St. Clair Avenue.

“I’ve rammed as many solar panels on my roof as I could possibly have fit,” he says. “There just isn’t any more real estate up there.”

Last summer, he joined a growing number of Toronto homeowners harnessing the sun when he installed a $22,000 solar photovoltaic system to produce electricity and a $3,000 solar thermal water-heating unit — both at the high end in terms of size and price.

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