The report builds on several advantages in Canada’s environment and infrastructure to detail an ambitious overhaul of the country’s electricity sector. “We also need to make sure that people in the community see the benefit of this transition for themselves individually, for their community.” The shift depends on “really strong, really clear federal and provincial rules,” with implementation “at the provincial level and at the community level,” DSF Climate Solutions Policy Analyst Stephen Thomas told The Energy Mix. “At a time when energy security and affordability are top of mind for many Canadians, this report shows that a clean electricity pathway based on renewables offers an affordable option for ambitiously reducing emissions while meeting increasing electricity demand,” the Foundation writes. Canada can achieve 100 percent zero-emission electricity by 2035 with an electricity system that prioritizes renewable energy, storage, energy efficiency, and interprovincial transmission and avoids the pitfalls of nuclear generation, fossil gas, carbon capture and storage, and carbon offsets, the David Suzuki Foundation (DSF) concludes in a modelling study released in May.Īnd the authors note two equally important dimensions of the transition: decolonizing power to benefit Indigenous peoples, and engaging with communities at the outset to save precious time and money.
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