#12 Innisfail Solar: Leveraging Creative Collaboration to Build Capacity Within the Community - a podcast by 13 Ways

In the midst of an ongoing global pandemic, an array of solar panels — 25 megawatts' worth, to be exact — appeared on 100 acres of municipally owned land in the community of Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. And as new economic realities continued to force municipalities to discover innovative solutions and alternative sources of revenue, the Town of Innisfail partnered with the private developer of the project to explore and initiate a number of programs and initiatives that would ultimately create benefit for the entire Innisfail community.

As Town officials on today's episode explain, the ability to think outside the box and approach situations with an open mind can create opportunities that may otherwise be considered unfeasible — and perhaps even unrealistic. Now, however, the economic, social and environmental benefits to the community are already speaking for themselves.

Listen in to learn how a privately owned utility-scale renewable energy project is now acting as a source of long-term revenue for the municipality and helping build capacity within the Innisfail community.

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