links

Photovoltaics

• IEA Power Systems Program
  

• Option de mesurage net vous permet d'injecter vos surplus de production d'électricité dans le réseau d'Hydro-Québec
  

  Hydro Québec's website for their net-metering program

Newsletters

• IEA Power Systems Program
  

Associations

• Solar Energy Society of Canada Inc.
  

• Canadian Solar Industries Association
  

• Solar Nova Soctia
  

  Solar Nova Scotia is an affiliate member of the Solar Energy Society of Canada Inc. (SESCI), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to energy conservation and the use of renewable forms of energy. Solar Nova Scotia promotes an accelerated move to a 'soft energy path,' incorporating energy conservation and all forms of renewable energy: passive and active solar, photovoltaics, wind, biomass and geothermal.

• International Solar Energy Society
  

• American Solar Energy Society
  

• Ecocity Group
  

Solar Thermal

• IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Program
  

Resource database (links and documents)

• Solar buildings web links
  

  Solar buildings related links listed in a PDF

• International Energy Agency Renewable Energy Policy Database
  

  The Global Renewable Energy Policies and Measures Database provides information on policies and measures taken or planned to encourage the uptake of renewable energy. The database covers measures in IEA member countries, together with members of the Johannesburg Renewable Energy Coalition (JREC), and Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa.

Buildings

• Build Green Canada
  

  Built Green™ is an industry driven voluntary program that promotes "green" building practices to reduce the impact that building has on the environment. It benefits the homebuyer, the community and the environment and is an opportunity for everyone to choose a "green" future.

• IEA-SHC - Task 40: Towards Net Zero Energy Solar Buildings
  

  The objective of the Task is to study current net-zero, near net-zero and very low energy buildings and to develop a common understanding, a methodology, tools, innovative solutions and industry guidelines.

• Team North 2009
  

  Canadian entry in the US DOE Solar Decathlon Competition

• Sustainable Urbanism Initiative (SUI) Toronto
  

  Organization designing Davenport Net-Zero Townhouses

International conferences

• Solar Future 2010
  

  Sun as main energy, from vision to reality.
  February 11-12, 2010, Istambul, Turkey.