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2025 Climate Dollars

How transforming Canada’s electricity grid could drive decarbonization, save billions

by Ralph Torrie

Corporate Knights puts forward a vision for an electrified Canada powered by renewable electricity, smart technology, and a coast-to-coast transmission link

Energy

Finland has practically eliminated coal-fired energy, as wind soars

by Natalie Alcoba

Finland's Helen Ltd. energy company shuttered Salmisaari, its last coal power plant, this week, bringing the Nordic country's reliance on coal to

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Energy

How renewables can play a bigger part in Canada's electricity system

by Jason Dion and Sara Hastings-Simon

OPINION | Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of new power. Planning and investment need to catch up to this

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Energy/Spring 2023

Microgrids should be the future of electricity. Let's fund them.

by Ralph Torrie

In a new call to action, we’re urging the federal government to fund neighbourhood-scale microgrid pilot projects

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Ontario and Alberta are building natural gas plants despite lower costs of renewables

by Mitchell Beer

A new report found wind energy is cheaper than gas-fired power in both provinces. So why are they still leaning on gas?

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Energy

Why Canadians need to flip the switch on fossil fuels

by Jason Dion and Caroline Lee

Big switch away to clean electricity is coming – and will make energy more affordable to Canadians: report

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Energy

We don’t have time to wait for the emissions-reduction nuclear power could bring

by Angela Bischoff

The industry has a long and troubled history of delays and cost overruns

Decarbonization/Energy

Canada is ‘stuck at the starting gate’ of global decarbonizing megatrend

by Shawn McCarthy

We need to bridge the “say–do gap” today to meet our 2030 targets, panellists at Earth Index launch say

Canada Votes 2021/Energy

A renewable energy parade is waiting for Canada’s next prime minister

by Anne-Raphaelle Audouin, Robert Hornung and Elisa Obermann

The procession is already marching forward with a great many Canadians cheering it on

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