North America / Defense

Fort Severn Solar Microgrid

Organizations, planners, suppliers, equipment, controls, and reported system specifications—with source-level citations.

CoverageDetailed public record
Named organizations4
System facts5
Sources reviewed4
Last researched2026-07-19

Fort Severn First Nation's remote-community solar project was delivered with Hedgehog Technologies and designed to reduce diesel dependence. Federal reporting identifies community ownership, project management, scale, completion year, and expected fuel savings.

Research status
Operational; completed in 2021
Historical classification
Community
Reported capacity
1,250 kW
Coordinates
55.98709, -87.63877
Evidence note: “Every company” cannot be proven from public material alone. This page lists every organization found in the recovered record and reviewed sources, preserves unknown roles, and explicitly marks undisclosed controller or equipment details.

Project delivery

Who was involved in Fort Severn Solar Microgrid?

4 publicly identified organizations. Where a recovered source named a participant without explaining its work, the role remains explicitly unspecified.

Organization

Fort Severn First Nation

Project owner and community operator [3][4]

Organization

Government of Canada

Clean-energy funder and reporting authority [3]

Organization

Government of Ontario

Remote First Nation renewable-energy funder [4]

Organization

Hedgehog Technologies

Project manager [3]

System evidence

Reported capacity and specifications

Values can describe different project phases or components. Source citations are attached to each figure so discrepancies remain visible.

KW Solar
300 [1]
Storage
300 KW [1]
Solar PV
300 kW [3]
Estimated diesel displacement
Approximately 20%, or 400,000 litres per year [3]
Archived storage rating
300 kW as published; energy capacity and supplier were not stated [1]

Controls and hardware

Equipment and controller details

Manufacturer and model are shown only when a source names them. Generic descriptions are not converted into guessed product assignments.

No controller or equipment model was found in the reviewed public sources. This is a disclosure gap, not evidence that the project lacks coordinated controls.

Provenance

4 sources

Primary owner, government, university, supplier, and engineering sources are preferred. Archived references preserve claims whose original pages moved or disappeared.

  1. [1]
    Recovered Microgrid Projects record

    Internet Archive · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  2. [2]
    Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org · Archived source · captured 2021-04-20

  3. [3]
  4. [4]