TOH edition: Tuesday, 22 September 2026 · Planet & Nature
An Arctic Hamlet That Burned Shipped-In Diesel for Decades Is Now Making Its Own Power — and Selling It Back to the Grid.
Reported by CBC North
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The Inuit hamlet of Naujaat has finished its Ikayuut solar and battery project, generating roughly 1.6 gigawatt-hours of clean electricity a year and becoming the first community to sell power back under Nunavut's independent power producer programme.
Remote northern communities are treated as permanently dependent on shipped diesel. One of them is now a generator.
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