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areas, so as to not impede the enjoy-
ment of the surroundings with grey
or white steel and concrete
structures.”
“Further we believed that every
wind project could be hybridized to
include solar, and that most solar
projects could be hybridized to
include wind. Therefore the phrase
Hybrid Energy Park© was coined
and copyrighted. Later when rooftop
solar became an interest, we labelled
these Mini-Energy Parks©.”
FIT PROGRAM CHANGES THE GAME
The Ontario Power Authority
announced the Feed In Tariff (FIT)
program in 2009, and the announce-
ment changed the renewable energy
game in Ontario forever. “ Suddenly,
everybody who had ever seen a
picture of a solar panel (and to a
lesser degree wind turbines) were
running around promoting them-
selves as a Renewable Energy expert
(particularly in the small residential
or Micro-FIT-10kW and under
arena),” the company says.
Hybridyne suddenly was in the
spotlight for their expertise in the
renewable energy technology.
Hybridyne was able to enter the
new market that was a result of FIT
with a very advanced offering, and
has since been working on many
building-mounted PV arrays which
have been awarded FIT contracts.
concentrates on “Portadyne TM”
Remote Hybrid Systems – designed
to have no connection to the stan-
dard power grid. All of Hybridyne-
RHS’s Portadyne TM products are
designed for remote, off-the-grid
applications
Design, manufacture, and sales
of power electronics, conversion and
inversion technologies live under
Hybridyne Power Electronics Inc.
(HPE). Hybridyne Power Generation
Corp. has the responsibility to own,
sell, and operate grid-supply
systems.
PIONEERING IN NEW ENERGY
From 2005-2007, Hybridyne
developed new terminology to apply
to solar arrays and wind farms that
could co-exist with the public. The
company copyrighted the term
“Energy Park©”, in 2006 a term that
implies people can happily coexist
with distributed electricity genera-
tion in a park-like setting (with
safety protocols and setbacks
observed). The company says “We
even investigated having turbine
bases disguised as massive tree
trunks, if turbines were to be
installed in tree-lined walking
BEHIND -THE -METER SYSTEMS
ROOF TOP SOLAR ARRAYS INSTALLAT ION
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - HYBRIDYNE