The Toronto District School Board is entering into a partnership with a solar energy company that will see aging school roofs repaired and solar panels put on the roofs of more than 400 schools.

Deutsche B繹rse and NYSE Euronext have unveiled their plan to create what would be the largest stock and derivatives exchange, while a second proposed merger would bring together the London Stock Exchange and Canada's TMX Group.

Germany's move comes as Italy plans a 30% cut in its FIT for next year. That could force Italian developers to build as fast as possible in the 2H10, much like German developers did in 1H. The lower drop in FIT gives manufacturers time to make a transition to markets such as the United States and Canada, which have the possibility of being larger than Europe, based on combined electricity demand and land available for development.

SunEdison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials,has purchased two ground-mount solar PV development projects in Ontario from TransAlta, Canada's largest publicly traded generator and marketer of electricity and renewable power.

A new Microelectronics Innovation Center is being formed at the Université de Sherbrooke in Bromont, Québec, to focus on 200mm MEMS and 3D wafer-level packaging, and advanced technologies associated with the assembly and packaging of silicon chips.

If Ontario's Bill 150 (the Green Energy and Green Economy Act) is passed as expected in May, Ontario will become the first North American jurisdiction with an incentive system modeled after the German feed-in tariffs (FITs), according to incentive expert Paul Gipe.