Case Study: Minas Energy achieves engaging, interactive online renewable energy training with D2L Brightspace

Energizing Communities to Build a Sustainable Future

Minas Energy, the Nova Scotia–based energy division of Minas Basin Pulp and Power, needed a way to package decades of hands-on renewable-energy expertise into an engaging online program. The company wanted to help organizations and communities assess, design and finance renewable projects, create a new education-based revenue stream, and fill a market gap around the business and project-delivery side of renewables—not just the technical details.

Minas partnered with D2L, using the Brightspace platform and D2L’s Learning & Creative Services to develop 13 interactive modules featuring discussion boards, quizzes, animated videos, infographics, site-selection maps, stakeholder-mapping activities and financial calculators. Piloted with Dalhousie students and receiving positive feedback, the program launched as a scalable certification offering that boosts learner engagement, opens doors to university and municipal partnerships, and helps communities and companies make renewable projects financially and socially viable.

Minas Energy

Chris Peters

Energy Project Manager