Paging all premiers: The great climate-energy disconnect
Graphic from The Big Switch, 2022
Would it surprise you to hear that not a single province in Canada has an energy plan designed to tackle climate change?
Electrification is the backbone of decarbonization, and it’s clear provincial jurisdiction. Six of the 10 provinces have climate plans at least vaguely oriented towards net-zero. But not a single one has translated its objectives into direction for the tangle of regulators and system operators, public utility commissions and energy companies that will have to deliver electrification.
“If we don’t have an electricity system up to the task, we are not getting off fossil fuels,” Jason Dion told me this week. Jason is the mitigation research director for the Canadian Climate Institute. He spends his days studying the pathways to net-zero and identifying the logjams.
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