This Conestoga College solar installation in Waterloo, Ontario, was designed, engineered, and installed by Bluewater Energy’s licensed in-house team. Learn more about commercial solar and battery storage, or browse the full project portfolio.
Project Details: Conestoga College Solar
- Completed: February 2022
- Project: Institutional Solar Canopy
- Scope of Work: Solar modules, racking, inverters, and all DC and AC connections
- DC Generation Capacity: 158.4 kWp (396 × LG NeON 2 400 W modules)
- Mounting System: Racking on an open-web steel lattice canopy over the main entrance
- Inverter Technology: SMA Sunny Tripower CORE1 (7 × 33 kW)
- Location: Waterloo, ON
Architecture That Generates
At Conestoga College’s Waterloo campus, the solar array is not tucked out of sight; it is part of the architecture. Three hundred and ninety-six modules crown the main entrance on an open-web steel lattice, shading the walkway below while generating clean power for the building above. Bluewater delivered the system’s entire generating chain: every module, the racking that secures it, seven SMA inverters, and the DC and AC connections that carry its output into the campus electrical service.
Precision at Altitude
An open-web lattice is a structure of air as much as steel, and it offers no easy footing. Our crews began in the fall of 2021 and worked from catwalks through the cold of an Ontario winter, setting racking, modules, and wiring one deliberate connection at a time. The pace was set by the structure, never by the calendar, and the system was completed in February 2022: a demanding build delivered to the same standard as every Bluewater installation.