The rise of renewable power has created a need for energy storage that companies are fulfilling with underwater balloons, multi−tonne flywheels and decades−old designs.
If it works, our governments would be tapping into a tried-and-true Canadian approach that has worked, one that sees provinces pioneer good ideas we can scale up into national policies.
The National Energy Board says a renewable power project building spree between 2005 and 2015 took its share of overall generation in Canada from two per cent to 11 per cent.
Obama, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto will release what he called a "a comprehensive North American climate, clean energy and environment partnership."
For remote Indigenous communities in Canada, the build out of renewable energy would help to ensure local, reliable, and affordable energy. But we need to support them.
David Suzuki says that variable renewable sources and “flexibility options” for conventional and renewable power generation are making baseload power obsolete.
The cost of electricity that solar and wind technologies generate is poised to drop dramatically by 2025, making renewable energy more affordable than ever before.