Oxford Properties has teamed up with RESCo Energy to install 600 solar panels covering 20,000 sq ft at a shopping mall in Toronto, Canada. The project is part of the company’s “Solar Roofs” initiative, which aims to provide affordable and sustainable energy solutions for low-income communities across North America. Oxford Properties now plans to install another one million sq ft of rooftop solar projects across its retail and industrial assets by 2022. To make it work, Oxford management hired Canadian engineering company RESCo Energy Inc. in the spring of 2017 to install 600 solar panels in clusters around the mall’s roof surfaces. Malls are well suited to solar energy generation because they have so much flat roof space, said director of sustainability, Darryl Neate.
Oxford Properties has teamed up with RESCo Energy to install 600 solar panels covering 20,000 sq ft at a shopping mall in Toronto, Canada. The project is part of the company’s “Solar Roofs” initiative, which aims to provide affordable and sustainable energy solutions for low-income communities across North America. Oxford Properties now plans to install another one million sq ft of rooftop solar projects across its retail and industrial assets by 2022. Malls are well suited to solar energy generation because they have so much flat roof space, said director of sustainability, Darryl Neate.