Canada is an electricity heavyweight. In addition to being the world’s sixth-largest electricity producer and third-largest electricity exporter, Canada can boast an electricity grid that...
B.C. has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do what few places in the world have managed. The province will soon release its new economic strategy, following the recent release of its Roadmap...
VANCOUVER — A net-zero 2050 will require a lot more clean electricity than is currently produced, and despite having a relatively clean grid today, Canada isn’t yet ready for the needs of...
OTTAWA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s Speech from the Throne: “Today’s Speech from the Throne...
VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the results of the federal election: “While the political scorecard may look...
Last year, saw a collapse in global energy demand brought on by the pandemic—the biggest drop since the end of the Second World War. It might seem like a sombre lead for an op-ed about Canadian...
This survey is part of a four-part series. View the other three posts here, here and here. In the latest round of survey work by Clean Energy Canada and Abacus Data, two out of three people in Canada...
It was our current prime minister’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly...
Canada’s energy sector: its future is often seen as foggy and facing inevitable decline. But the fossil fuel energy sector does not equal our entire energy sector. Canada’s clean energy...
Energy: it’s a topic Canadian politicians can’t stop talking about. But the energy conversation is often framed around what we need to cut in the decades ahead—oil production, carbon pollution....
If the global clean energy transition were a music festival, China would be dominating the main stage. In the past five years alone, China has invested over half-a-trillion dollars in renewables....
The Clean Energy Ministerial held in Beijing, China, earlier this month drew some of the world’s A-list climate and clean energy experts. Among them was Christiana Figueres, the former...