Canada's largest solar panel project to create more than 1,000 jobs in oil country

Canada's largest solar panel project is poised to create more than 1,000 jobs at the peak of its construction in southern Alberta. That’s according to Dan Balaban the co-founder and CEO of Calgary-based Greengate, which is developing and managing the project. The solar farm – called Travers Solar – is currently under construction and is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2022. Balaban said the project is “unique” for a number of reasons.

“For one: the scale, it’s by far and away the largest solar energy project ever constructed in Canada, [and] one of the largest in the world,” he told CTV’s Your Morning on Monday.

He said it’s also being constructed in Alberta -- in the heart of oil country. “And I think that is just fantastic,” he said. Balaban said the oil and gas industry in Canada is “going to continue to be an important part of our economy for the foreseeable future.”