The first detailed solar proposal on the province’s major projects list popped up in 2015: the Brooks 1 project, a 17-megawatt facility slated for 74 acres of southeastern Alberta’s Newell County.

Tizya-Tramm said the only thing he would've changed about the project is that he would have started it sooner. The solar farm has brought in over $400,000 to Old Crow, Tizya-Tramm said, which is ...