Silfab Ontario, a solar energy company, has signed an agreement with Sunny Day Energy, an Ontario-based property development and management company, for supply of domestic content modules.
In the Greater Toronto area, Sunny Day Energy will be installing the high efficiency modules in numerous commercial rooftop projects in sizes ranging from 200 to 500 KWp. As part of the agreement, Silfab will be supplying around 5 MWp of the domestic content modules over a period of two years. Silfab manufactures the modules selected by Sunny Day Energy at its new Mississauga production plant. This satisfies the domestic content requirement of the local Feed-In-Tariff program.
Silfab has the ability to offer modules using poly-crystalline or mono-crystalline silicon in cell counts of 60 and 72. The company commenced operations at its fully automated Mississauga solar module manufacturing plant in 2011. It is one among the largest solar manufacturing plants in the country with a production capacity of 90 MWp, annually.
Silfab Ontario is to supply Sunny Day single-crystalline SLA 60 cell modules, which possess 255 and 260 Wp power picks. These help optimize the rooftop surface and the energy production.
RESCo Energy, an engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance (EPCM) service firm is to develop most of Sunny Day's multiple rooftop projects.
Silfab Ontario’s President, Franco Traverso, stated that these and similar projects help keep people employed and also help run manufacturing companies. There is still a huge potential in Ontario for photovoltaics, he said.