Green Energy Futures

Kolton Kasur left the family farm in Bashaw, Alberta to work in the oil patch until he came across NAIT's Alternative Energy program. "I think there’s going to be a huge future in [renewable energy] for farming communities and all rural areas," says Kasur. When he graduates he will have worked with everything wind to solar to geothermal to biofuels and even fuel cells. Check out NAIT's Alternative...

The NAIT Alternative Energy Program aims to fill a growing demand for renewable energy expertise. It’s a two-year program that teaches students how to design and install a broad range of green technologies ranging from solar to wind and even exotic technologies like fuel cells. There is a “definite knowledge gap out there regarding many of the green technologies,” explains instructor Don MacIntyre...

Germany is the best example of a country that has made the leap to renewable energy. In 10 years it's gone from 6.7 per cent to 20 per cent of its electricity provided by renewable energy. What did it cost regular Germans? If they didn't take advantage of the feed-in tariff program and, for example, install solar panels on their roof, the average German paid roughly an extra $50 a year on their ut...

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we talk to Chris Turner, author of The Leap about how Spain went from having one of Europe's worst rail systems to one of the best and the effect it had on their carbon footprint. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/01/author-chris-turner-taking-green-energy-leap

When Medicine Hat aka “The Gas City” created the Hat Smart program to inject a little sustainable energy into their natural gas-fired electricity system residents really got fired up about solar energy and energy efficiency as Alderman Ted Clugston explains in this week’s Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/pilot/medicine-hats-smart-energy-revolution