Sunday, December 20, 2009

Algonquin Park Lodge Announces 5-Year Renewable Energy Strategic Plan

Algonquin Park's Bartlett Lodge, a baton in the resort industry for implementing sustainable, eco-friendly, and energy-conserving operational practices, advertise a 5- Year Plan to abate activity burning and decidedly access Solar Power Generation output.

Huntsville, Ontario -- Bartlett Lodge (http://www.bartlettlodge.com) has been an Algonquin Provincial Park battleground back 1917 and its accepted owners, Marilyn & Kim Smith, are absolutely committed to ecology responsibility. They accept approved their adherence by introducing a amount of avant-garde activity extenuative measures and utilizing environmentally affable and non-polluting practices and articles into the resort's circadian operations. The Smiths accept just appear a plan, to be implemented over the next 5 years, which will decidedly access Bartlett Lodge's present solar activity capability.

In a move to become absolutely activity arrogant application blooming power, Bartlett Lodge's 5-year activity plan will body aloft the improvements that accept already been made. Currently, one of Bartlett Lodge's twelve cottages is absolutely off grid, serviced by solar ability installations and two cabins are filigree tied. The cabin's solar electric grid-tied arrangement aswell accuse the batteries of the electric outboard motor on the resort's baptize taxi. As well, the capital abode dining allowance has a Solar Thermal Hot baptize system. In 2006, Bartlett Lodge became the aboriginal Ontario resort to about-face its electricity supplier to Bullfrog Power - Ontario's alone 100% blooming electricity company.

Beginning in the abatement of 2008, Bartlett's 5-year plan calls for Photo Voltaic panels to be installed. These panels will aftermath apple-pie ability that will be fed on to the Ontario Hydro electricity grid. To advice them accomplish their goals, Bartlett Lodge has assassin Generation Solar Renewable Energy Systems Inc. (http://www.generationsolar.com), a aggregation that designs, installs and casework a ample ambit of renewable activity systems for residential and bartering applications. Once the solar panels accept been installed, Bartlett will become a registered architect of blooming electricity beneath the Ontario Power Authority's Standard Offer Program. The Standard Offer Program allows operators of baby renewable activity breeding accessories to participate in Ontario's electricity accumulation arrangement by bartering ability through their bounded electricity distributors and accepting paid a fair and abiding amount for the ability they provide.

A complete analysis of Bartlett's accepted electrical burning will be undertaken with the ambition to abate burning by 30% from present levels. To ability this goal, there is a plan to alter all of the lodge's electric hot baptize tanks with on-demand top ability propane heaters. As well, all of the bedfellow cottages that currently are acrimonious by electricity will be retrofitted with copse or propane heating systems.

Bartlett Lodge's 5-year plan demonstrates Marilyn and Kim Smith's administration and adherence to attention and renewable energy. Due to their acuteness to the ambiance and the measures that they accept taken over the years to bottle and conserve, Bartlett Lodge will abide a role archetypal for those in the resort industry adulatory to accept acceptable and energy-saving operational practices.

About Bartlett Lodge:
Located aural the borders of world-renowned Algonquin Provincial Park, Bartlett Lodge (http://www.bartlettlodge.com) is an flush Ontario resort alms beach cottage rentals and accomplished dining in a aboriginal wilderness setting. This melancholia eco-friendly Modified American Plan resort is ideal for ancestors vacations, adventurous couples' getaways, weddings and accumulation functions. For added advice on Bartlett Lodge accommodation alarm 1-866-614-5355.

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