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Sundancer Grand Opening


        want to capture—and we have a lot of a land base        for the PAMZ Blue Skies Award for Innovation and

        that we can use in order to build our own renewable     application of technology to reduce energy use and

        solar energy farm.”                                     air pollution. NGCI is currently looking to start the
                                                                construction process to expand the project to 2MW

        Currently, NGCI oversees a 64 KW Solar energy           capacity in the same location.

        site which powers up one of the community’s main
        community buildings that houses a Canada Post           Next on the horizon is an 80MW project for which

        and a CIBC. In Addition, there is a 1 MW solar project   NGCI has invited DNV GL Energy to present a multi-

        called the Neyaskweyahk Sundancer. Powered up           scope proposal.
        March of 2020, it was constructed by Calgary-based

        Sky Fire Energy, and generates energy that is sold to   “This proposal was accepted and is currently 80 per
        Alberta’s grid. The project was recently nominated      cent complete,” says Ward-Caisse. “DNVGL has





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