More for Less
British Columbia faces a triple heat threat: summers made dangerous by more frequent and more intense heat waves, rising electricity demand that puts home energy affordability at risk, and worsening...
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Reports
Make Your Condo EV Ready
Make Your Condo EV Ready is a comprehensive guide designed to support owners and residents, boards and councils, building management teams, and developers who wish to install electric vehicle (EV)...
Our North Star Action Plan
The One Canadian Clean Economy Task Force believes Canada can simultaneously safeguard its economy from the trade and tariff shocks of today while setting itself up to compete for the long term,...
Missing Out
With the prospect of bringing more European cars into Canada being floated in recent months, Clean Energy Canada decided to analyze the European car market to see what affordable electric options...
Empowering Households
There are many ways to measure the impact of a climate solution, but often it helps to take the long view. How do we spur the transformational change needed for an electrified, net-zero world? How do...
The World Next Door
Canada woke up the day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in unfamiliar territory. Our closest neighbour and biggest trade partner for the past century suddenly decided that Canada was...
Building Toward Low Cost and Carbon
Canada needs to build. As housing costs are soaring, the country is embarking on a generational housing build-out, with five million more homes and their surrounding infrastructure needed to properly...
Electrifying the lot
There are many benefits to EV ownership, but perhaps the greatest is the ability to skip the gas pump. No more eye-watering fuel prices and pesky oil changes. No more pumping gas in the freezing...
Reality Check
Thanks to the province’s abundant hydro power, British Columbians’ electricity bills are among North America’s lowest and half of what an Alberta household pays for power. Thoughtful planning...
Opening the Door
Over the last two years, the energy transition has really been going places. The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and the EU’s Green Deal have fuelled household-level clean energy shifts at a pace...
The Payload
There has been much chatter about electric vehicles. Are sales going up or down? Should we put tariffs on imports? How much money do they save? But these conversations have an asterisk: they’re...
The Scenic Route
Those old enough to remember the gas wars of the ’90s may remember the number 40 cents. As gas stations competed for customers, prices dipped as low as 40 cents per litre in many parts of Canada in...