Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Barbara Finamore, senior attorney and Asia Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about her Oxford Energy Institute article, “Cleantech innovation in China and its impact on [Read more]
This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Feb. 12, 2021. By Alex May Electric energy storage is becoming more important to the energy industry as the share of intermittent generating technologies, [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Ryan Kennedy, associate professor of political science at the University of Houston, about the politics of Joe Biden’s ambitious climate and clean energy plan. Related links: Biden’s [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Todd Hirsch, chief economist of the Alberta Treasury Branch and an influential voice in the Alberta energy conversation. The topic of discussion was an Oct. 21 column [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor, about Clean Energy Canada’s new report, “Taking the Wheel,” which argues that Canada isn’t moving fast enough to develop its electric vehicle [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews John Kemp, a highly respected energy analyst, about the relative decline of the US and Western Europe as China becomes an economic and geopolitical powerhouse. The energy [Read more]
By Sara Hoff, Alexander Mey This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Oct. 23, 2020. The average energy capacity cost of utility-scale battery storage in the United States has rapidly decreased [Read more]
By Benjamin Israel, Nina Lothian This article was published by Pembina Institute on Sept. 16, 2020. In its 2020 annual energy outlook, energy giant BP predicts a “fundamental restructuring” of the global energy system in order to decarbonize. [Read more]
This month, DEEP Earth Energy Production will take its first step to building the first geothermal power facility in Canada. After months of testing, the company is set to begin drilling the deepest horizontal well [Read more]
By Maxwell Hayes and Sara Hoff This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 18, 2020 Pairing renewable energy generators with energy storage, particularly batteries, is increasingly common as the cost of [Read more]
Calgary’s Greengate Power Corporation and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) announced on Monday their agreement to further fund the $500 million Travers Solar project. The funding will go towards development and construction of the Travers Solar [Read more]
The BC government has awarded a permit to advance the Fort Nelson geothermal project which could replace power currently generated from fossil fuels or imported from Alberta. The northern-most town in British Columbia, Fort Nelson [Read more]
By Isabelle Turcotte This article was published by Pembina Institute on Oct. 9. 2019. Warnings on the urgency with which we need to act to avoid the worst impacts of climate change are multiplying. A 2019 report found [Read more]
By Simon Bennett This article was published by the International Energy Agency on Sept. 27, 2019. Among the many takeaways from the UN Climate Action Summit earlier this week was the need for capital to be reallocated [Read more]
By Richard Bowers This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Sept. 26, 2019. As of the end of 2018, 29 states and the District of Columbia had adopted renewable portfolio standards (RPS), polices [Read more]
This article was published by the International Energy Agency on June 14, 2019. The world has an important opportunity to tap into hydrogen’s vast potential to become a critical part of a more sustainable and [Read more]
By Kien Chau This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on May 29, 2019. In January 2019, Germany’s government-appointed coal commission introduced a proposed pathway to phase out all coal electricity generation by [Read more]
The Alberta government’s Indigenous Solar Program funded the installation of solar panels at some band buildings on the Little Red River Cree Nation. Alberta government photo. The Little Red River Cree First Nation installed solar [Read more]
As the world combats climate change, clean growth is shifting away from century-old fuels and technologies toward greener energy solutions. Transport systems, global energy companies embrace clean growth Dan Woynillowicz and Merran Smith This article [Read more]
The Singapore-IEA Clean Energy Investment and Financing Training Programme is the second event under the Singapore-IEA Regional Training Hub initiative, which was launched in 2016 when Singapore became an Association Country of the IEA. Jürgen from [Read more]
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