I’ve been impressed with my friend Maruf’s drive to succeed and make a difference in Canada ever since I first met him years ago. He was living… Read more: Partnering With Innowa Solar

Ontario was an early global leader in PV installations due to the government’s FIT and MicroFIT programs, which began in 2009. The FIT program guaranteed long-term, 20-year… Read more: Ontario Solar PV O&M Benchmark Study

Wikipedia defines community as:“A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion,… Read more: Community and Solar

“Seize the day” A memorable line from the great movie Dead Poet’s Society delivered by a dearly missed Robin Williams. I’ve tried to remember that line at… Read more: Seize the Day

A number of years ago somebody said that I was a Maven. I asked what that was and they said it was a description of a type… Read more: Helping Sunworks Customers

I often say “A defect is a jewel to be treasured” to coworkers. The idea being rather than ignoring or hiding a defect we should try to… Read more: Learning From Our Mistakes

What are your goals for 2024? Five years ago I started Boxbrite with a few people and a goal of using data to help make a difference… Read more: Paying It Forward with Data in 2024

I feel fortunate to have had many opportunities in my life to volunteer to help make a difference in the world. From welcoming refugees, volunteer mediation, interfaith… Read more: International Volunteer Day

Good for these students for calling attention to McMaster University’s hypocrisy! Is there a better word to describe installing carbon spewing gas generators running up to 100… Read more: McMaster University’s Climate Change Hypocrisy

Our firm focuses on digging deeply into the performance of solar systems and faults that can emerge. We have a saying here that “defects are a jewel… Read more: Systems Thinking for PV Systems

Had been thinking about writing an article but have been busy. That was until this morning when what I thought was the start of a cold turned… Read more: Talking about Solar Energy in 2023

2022 has been a year of highs and lows for everyone and we hope you and those you love have been safe through this rollercoaster we call… Read more: Season’s Greetings from the Boxbrite Family

I don’t know about you, but I’m frustrated with the state of the world these days. We seem paralyzed and helpless when confronted with challenges like the… Read more: We need to do better than this

Ignored problems don’t go away; instead they grow over time. Surely climate change has taught us that. Yet we risk repeating our mistakes believing technology alone can… Read more: A village to raise a solar panel

Municipalities have spent tens of millions of taxpayer money on solar power projects in the last decade as investments and to reduce carbon emissions. However, analysis indicates… Read more: Are Ontario’s Municipal Solar Power Projects Losing Millions?

8 reasons Niloofar Abbasvandi and I were delighted to have been chosen to participate in the Accelerator Centre‘s Studio Program.1) People like Stephanie Jenner! Even when she… Read more: Joining the Accelerator Centre’s Studio Program!

Happy 4th Canada Day Niloofar Abbasvandi. Hope it is as memorable as four years ago today that your plane touched down. Congratulations on receiving your PR this… Read more: Celebrating A Green Canada Day

Thought I might reflect on attending Collision 2022 this week with my coworker Niloofar. I had to include the standard shot most people used, with a nod… Read more: Reflections on Collision 2022

Congratulations Joseph Olmez on becoming a Canadian citizenship this morning! We wanted to celebrate this special day so arranged cake and desserts and met at the Accelerator… Read more: Celebrating Milestones

Last week I put out a post based on a CBC article about a school in Saskatchewan which generated a lot of interesting discussion about the economics/merits… Read more: Educating our children about solar sculptures or microgrids?

Inconceivable!! A line I love to use from The Princess Bride when seeing something that makes no sense. We’ve been working at more precise ways to determine… Read more: Inconceivable

In a recent search through endless online information, I couldn’t find any articles where someone had looked at the Tragedy of the Commons and our public electric… Read more: Public Utilities and the Tragedy of the commons

Happy International Women’s day! Today we celebrate all those who identify as women, their achievements, passions, and contributions they make each and every day. We especially want… Read more: International Women’s day!

When seven Tesla solar systems caught fire on Walmart stores, it made the national news and led to a lawsuit; 240 systems were subsequently removed. Why do… Read more: We need to do better with solar power systems

Last week I did two things I’d like to talk about: One, I watched the movie Don’t Look Up, a new Netflix Original; and two, I looked… Read more: Don’t Look Up: Your Solar Power System

WATERLOO REGION – Nine months after permanently moving to home-centred offices, a local solar tech start-up is using the workspaces at the Accelerator Centre to supplement its… Read more: Local company examines changed nature of ‘the office’ as it joins the Accelerator Centre

We’ve been having discussions about leadership in our virtual offices lately. Sometimes these discussions happen in one-on-one meetings, but sometimes they occur in our weekly tea break… Read more: On Leadership

“Ontario social entrepreneur works to automate monitoring of solar systems Leon Kehl has worked for himself for almost 28 years, but only recently stopped flinching when people… Read more: A Reluctant Businessman

Boxbrite Technologies is a relationship-based solar tech company that has typically relied on close trusted relationships, often meeting in person with clients. We also use Agile methodology,… Read more: “Meet me in my office.”

WATERLOO REGION – As the solar industry experiences unprecedented growth in Canada, a local solar tech company has partnered with a Toronto-based distributor to optimize customers’ investment… Read more: Tech company joins force with Ontario solar distributor

“Along with many other changes to our lives, the coronavirus pandemic has perhaps answered longstanding questions about whether or not large-scale telecommuting would work. It does, because… Read more: Workplace changes may stay

“FLORADALE — Leon Kehl gathered his employees for an outdoor group photo earlier this month, a group that hadn’t been in the workplace together since March. In… Read more: Boxbrite pulls the plug on physical workplace