Content tagged “energy”
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Canada is ready for a transformative energy experience
Finding smarter ways to power our societies is something we can and must do. More »
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Trottier inventory points to inevitable low-carbon transition
After reading the Trottier Project's Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada, what I find most striking about the results is how utterly unremarkable they are. The findings on Canada's reserves... More »
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The reconfigured grid in a low-carbon energy future
The Trottier Energy Futures Project's Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada shows that our supplies of sustainable, low-carbon energy will be more than enough to meet our needs through 2050.... More »
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Does selling off our resources make us an energy superpower?
Energy is on everyone's minds these days. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is determined to make Canada an energy superpower, fuelled mostly by Alberta's tar sands. More »
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Canada has no shortage of low-carbon energy
If anything limits Canada's transition to a low-carbon energy system, it will be integration, economics, and politics, not the lack of energy itself. An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada,... More »
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Renewable energy sources can drive Canada's low-carbon future, Trottier Energy Futures Project says
Canada will have access to enough renewable energy by 2050 to achieve the deep greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions required to do our part to put a brake on global climate... More »
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An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada
_An Inventory of Low-Carbon Energy for Canada_ shows that Canada's supplies of solar, wind, hydroelectric and biomass energy are much larger than the current or forecast demand for fuel and electricity, and technology costs have been falling in recent years. More »
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Low-carbon futures: the solutions outside the energy system
Many of the most promising and exciting opportunities to cut energy use and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are actually only indirectly related to energy.... More »
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Eighty per cent less carbon: the logistical equivalent of war
This phrase leapt out at me as we worked on messaging for the release of the Trottier Energy Futures Project's Low-Carbon Energy Futures: A Review of National Scenarios in late... More »
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Eight low-carbon energy scenarios: Similar paths, and one big gap
The Trottier Energy Futures Project (TEFP) found a lot of similarities, a few differences and one almost universal gap in its study of eight national scenarios of a low-carbon energy... More »
