Columbia Institute of Renewable Energy Society is incorporated

The Columbia Institute of Renewable Energy Society (CIRES) has announced its incorporation under the authority of British Columbia’s Societies Act.

Among CIRES’ goals are to research, promote, develop and facilitate the deployment of renewable energy systems in the province’s Kootenay and Columbia regions.

“As governments – provincially, nationally and globally – move to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050, it is crucial that electrical production, heating systems, transportation, and commercial industry sectors cease burning fossil fuels,” Eden Yesh, president of CIRES, told the East Kootenay online weekly e-know.ca.

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