clean power

As BC Hydro’s call for power signals the province’s commitment to expanding clean energy capacity, with a minimum 25 per cent First Nations equity stake, the need for Indigenous participation has never been greater.

New research by Pollution Probe and others lays out practical methods for enhancing delivery of reliable services from clean energy sources that have economic and environmental appeal.

The world is pivoting to renewables at an exponential rate. Fortunately, a booming solar industry will replace some of those lost jobs.

The major advance in fusion research announced in Washington on Tuesday was decades in coming, with scientists for the first time able to engineer a reaction that produced more power than was used to ignite it.

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, the Energy Department said.

To ensure Canada finds its place in the global EV manufacturing supply chain, Canadian policymakers must focus on goals such as developing a knowledgeable labour force and teaming up with First Nations communities.

Canada needs to help build an improved continental power grid with our American neighbours to avert the worst impacts of climate change, writes public policy analyst Philip Duguay.

Canada needs more transmission lines to connect provincial grids and allow us, as a nation, to play to our strengths.