Some of B.C.’s iconic red and white lighthouses are going green through the use of renewable energy sources.

Traditionally, the remote lighthouses have relied on diesel generators that run 24 hours a day to provide electricity for the light tower and lightkeeper houses. But now, 10 of B.C.’s 27 staffed lighthouses are scheduled to receive upgrades to solar and wind power sources in the next few years.

“This station’s been here since 1874, so it’s been for many years running on a diesel generator,” said Karen Zacharuk, the principal keeper at the Cape Beale Lighthouse near Bamfield on Vancouver Island’s west coast, where construction work is just starting.

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