A Halifax startup and a team of Nova Scotia Community College students are working together to help IKEA Canada assess what to do with the excess solar power produced at its Dartmouth location.
The retail outlet near Dartmouth Crossing is the Swedish company’s most sustainable location in Canada – often producing more solar energy than it can use. Unfortunately, it’s unable to return that excess power to the grid and is looking for ways to store the excess electricity.
So ROCarbon Labs and NSCC are collaborating to assess the power data and find ways that the surplus can be used to