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| In 2005 and 2006, Lester Pearson College has received funding from the Ministry of Energy and Mines to assist with the development of the infrastructure for an Integrated Energy System at Race Rocks. The funding has covered the costs of purchase and installation of the Solar Energy Component of that system. |
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| Integral to the installation of an Integrated Energy System at Race Rocks is the infrastructure, and operational costs of running the program at Race Rocks. Funding was received from the ministry for upgrading the microwave link and bandwidth from the island in order to accommodate the increased importance of telemetry systems on the island and underwater. A wide range of environmental variables are being installed with the help of this funding.
An atmospheric weather station for monitoring and reporting of environmental data was the first to be installed and real time and archived data is now available on the internet for use in research and education. Underwater environmental variables are being monitored by an array of instruments and that data will soon also be available in real time on the website.
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 A major contribution to the Integrated Energy Project has been the funding of a Solar Panel array which has been made available under the Ministry of Mines and Energy's "Solar for Schools" program . This solar array installed on the roof of the Energy building at Race Rocks feeds electricity into the Xantrex Power conditioning unit and the storage batteries, providing 6.5 kilowatts of energy at maximum level. This part of the project helps to emphasize the importance of using a number of sources of alternate energy integrated to power an electrical system. |
This file provides links to the data on the output from the 38 PV panels, and provides curriculum resources relating to Solar Energy.
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