Kenney, Savage must not be allowed to hijack national energy conversation with unfounded conspiracy narratives Canada needs a “just transition” plan. The global energy transition is gathering steam and, inevitably, there will be winners and [Read more]
By Mickey Francis This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 28, 2021. In 2020, renewable energy sources (including wind, hydroelectric, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy) generated a record 834 billion kilowatthours (kWh) of [Read more]
By Jonathan DeVilbiss, Mark Morey This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 21, 2021. A heat wave in the Northwest United States in late June led to more regional demand for electricity. [Read more]
The Government of Canada announced on Wednesday an agreement with Hydro-Québec to install 215 fast EV chargers in Québec. The federal government will contribute $9,490,000 to the initiative and Hydro-Québec will top that up with [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Dr. Mark Jaccard, professor and director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University and appointed to the 9-member expert committee that [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on June 30, 2021. Prior to 2008, demand for natural gas in Quebec and Ontario was largely met with domestic production from western Canada transported on [Read more]
A new report by the Pembina Institute concludes that a national renovation wave of deep building retrofits could generate more than $48 billion in economic development, while creating up to 200,000 jobs and significantly lowering [Read more]
Lindsay Aramayo This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on July 7, 2021. Most of the western United States is experiencing intense and historic drought conditions. California is one of the most [Read more]
By Dr. Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Summer has just officially begun in the northern hemisphere, and yet we are already seeing electricity systems around the world that are struggling to [Read more]
The Government of British Columbia announced on Thursday that it is awarding the second instalment of $50 million provided by the federal government to projects that will clean up dormant oil and gas sites in [Read more]
Abu Dhabi, UAE, June 30, 2021 – Accelerating energy transitions on a path to climate safety can grow the world’s economy by 2.4 per cent over the expected growth of current plans within the next decade, [Read more]
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke and Hydro Québec have entered into a memorandum of understanding to partner on the Hertel-New York Interconnection Project which could see Hydro Québec transmit green renewable energy to New York [Read more]
For the first time in Hydro-Québec’s history, solar power is now supplying the company’s grid. The Gabrielle-Bodis generating station, located in La Prairie, and Robert-A.-Boyd generating station in Varennes began generating electricity last week. The [Read more]
This article was published by the International Renewable Energy Agency on June 22, 2021. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 22, 2021 – The share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive [Read more]
Last week General Motors announced it will boost its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion. This is a 75 per cent increase from its initial commitment the company announced prior [Read more]
Last Thursday, Pembina Pipeline Corporation and TC Energy Corporation announced a plan to jointly develop a carbon transportation and sequestration system. Called the Alberta Carbon Grid, the project will use existing pipelines as well as [Read more]
On Thursday, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), Bloomberg Associates and the Pembina Institute released Building Healthy Cities in the Doorstep-Delivery Era: Sustainable urban freight solutions from around the world, a report that [Read more]
Air Products announced last week that it will build a multi-billion dollar net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Edmonton. The company began work on the core of the energy complex in 2018. The $1.3 billion net-zero [Read more]
By Bev Betkowski This article was published by Folio on May 05, 2021. University of Alberta research is brewing up better ways to help ethanol producers make the most of plant waste they use to [Read more]
By Michael Brown This article was published by Folio on May 25, 2021. Alberta’s oil and gas fields could be in store for another natural resource boom thanks to a University of Alberta-based lithium extraction [Read more]
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