Clean Energy Canada and the C.D. Howe Institute collaborated on a study to calculate the full costs of traffic congestion in the Vancouver region. The study found that gridlock stops people from...
British Columbia’s carbon tax—first introduced seven years ago today—has proven itself an economic and environmental winner. And as a made-in-Canada climate success story, it offers valuable...
Tracking the Energy Revolution 2014 – Canada is the first comprehensive annual survey of Canada’s clean-energy performance. The graphical report details the key policies, investments,...
Tracking the Energy Revolution — Global graphically highlights how and where the shift to cleaner energy sources and electrified transportation is unfolding in economies around the world such as...
Tracking the Energy Revolution is a series of annual publications that highlight where and how the shift to cleaner energy sources and electrified transportation is unfolding in Canada and around...
Within 20 years, Alberta could reduce its heavy reliance on fossil fuel energy and instead supply the province’s electricity mostly from clean and renewable...
Alberta Electric System Operator, “AESO 2012 Long-term Outlook Update,” 2012. http://www.aeso.ca/downloads/AESO_LTO_Update_Final.pdf Alberta Electric System Operator, “2012 LTO Update...
EFFECTIVE CAPACITY Effective capacity is a measure of a given generator’s capacity that the Alberta Electric System Operator can rely upon to be available during the peak load hours, such as early...
This report shows that it is technically feasible for Alberta to eliminate its very heavy coal reliance within 20 years, without simply switching this reliance to another fossil fuel. It acknowledges...
Under a Clean Power Transformation scenario, within two decades Alberta could reduce its reliance on coal-fired power for grid electricity from today’s 63.8 per cent to a mere 3.6 per cent of...
To understand the degree to which provincial policies could reduce coal’s share of Alberta’s power-generation mix, we modelled three scenarios, which we have called Continued Fossil Reliance,...
Alberta’s generation-demand gap presents the province with an unprecedented opportunity to seriously slash greenhouse gas emissions, lower public healthcare costs, and create new business and...
