They can’t solve all the world’s problems, but through a new partnership, Habitat for Humanity Guelph Wellington and the Rotary Club of Guelph are taking on affordable housing and climate change.

Habitat for Humanity has two local projects in the works: a 32-unit stacked townhouse complex in Fergus and a 66-unit apartment complex in Guelph.

On Oct. 13, the two groups announced the Guelph build will be fitted with solar panels and other forms of solar energy, estimated to produce 415,000 kW hrs/year onto the power grid in Guelph, and represent an annual cost savings of $65,000 across the whole building. 

Rotarian Carolyn Weatherson joined the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) and its renewable energy taskforce and has immersed herself in the benefits, the costs and cost recovery of renewable energy sources.

This group, with members from Canadian and American Rotary clubs, hopes to partner with Habitat for Humanity chapters to put solar panels on the homes it builds.

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