Clean Energy Canada
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One of Canada's leading clean energy think tanks. Based at Simon Fraser University. We share stories tracking the technologies and policies accelerating Canada's transition to a clean-powered economy.
🍁💰⚡️🚗 Upfront costs remain the biggest barrier to EV adoption in Canada, while most Canadians support keeping a version of the EV sales mandate, finds a new Leger poll.
#cdnpoli #EV
#cdnpoli #EV
Majority of Canadians want to keep an EV sales mandate: poll
A survey suggests 52 per cent of respondents want to keep the EV sales mandate, including 32 per cent who support it with some modifications
electricautonomy.ca
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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As the year draws to a close, Ember presents some of the biggest clean energy shifts of 2025 and what they mean for the coming year 🗓️
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
As the year draws to a close, Ember presents some of the biggest clean energy shifts of 2025 and what they mean for the coming year 🗓️
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🇪🇺🔋📈 By tweaking the policy to meet the moment while maintaining a clear market signal, the EU is taking a pragmatic approach—one we hope Canada will mirror, says Clean Energy Canada's @joannakyriazis.bsky.social.
#EV #cdnpoli
#EV #cdnpoli
ANALYSIS | Europe proposes allowing some gas cars to be sold beyond 2035 | CBC Climate Change News
A new proposal is watering down the original plan to have all new cars sold in Europe be electric by 2035, following pressure from carmakers and member states with automotive industries.
www.cbc.ca
December 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🇪🇺🔋📈 By tweaking the policy to meet the moment while maintaining a clear market signal, the EU is taking a pragmatic approach—one we hope Canada will mirror, says Clean Energy Canada's @joannakyriazis.bsky.social.
#EV #cdnpoli
#EV #cdnpoli
🇨🇦📉 Updated federal methane regulations are “an important and common-sense step toward putting Canada’s carbon competitiveness strategy into action,” says @racheldoran.bsky.social.
Read our full response👇 #cdnpoli
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Read our full response👇 #cdnpoli
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Methane regulations are proven, cost-effective, and a no-brainer - Clean Energy Canada
TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government’s updated methane regulations. “Implementing strong but flexible m...
cleanenergycanada.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🇨🇦📉 Updated federal methane regulations are “an important and common-sense step toward putting Canada’s carbon competitiveness strategy into action,” says @racheldoran.bsky.social.
Read our full response👇 #cdnpoli
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Read our full response👇 #cdnpoli
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🇦🇺🪨🔋 Using gravity and battery power, two “infinity trains” are now hauling iron ore at Fortescue’s Pilbara operations in Australia with zero emissions, recharging through downhill regenerative braking and returning uphill without external charging.
Fortescue Infinity Train gets 14.5 MWh battery that never needs charging [update]
Fortescue Infinity Train made its first 685 mile trip from Perth to the Pilbara, marking a major milestone in decarbonization.
electrek.co
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🇦🇺🪨🔋 Using gravity and battery power, two “infinity trains” are now hauling iron ore at Fortescue’s Pilbara operations in Australia with zero emissions, recharging through downhill regenerative braking and returning uphill without external charging.
🇨🇦🔌💰 In this week's Clean Energy Review: How one clean technology can tackle rising energy bills, heatwaves, and climate change all at once, tracking the incredible rise of solar’s best friend, and an EV charger guide apartment-dwellers won’t want to miss. #cdnpoli #energytransition #EV
The humble heat pump
Plus: A Canadian program pays homeowners to charge their EVs, tracking the incredible rise of solar’s best friend, and an EV charger guide apartment-dwellers won’t want to miss
mailchi.mp
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🇨🇦🔌💰 In this week's Clean Energy Review: How one clean technology can tackle rising energy bills, heatwaves, and climate change all at once, tracking the incredible rise of solar’s best friend, and an EV charger guide apartment-dwellers won’t want to miss. #cdnpoli #energytransition #EV
🇨🇦💰🔌 ICYMI, charging provider SWTCH has launched a new Canadian program that hooks homeowners up with a free Level 2 charger and pays them to charge their EVs.
Learn more here👇 #cdnpoli
Learn more here👇 #cdnpoli
SWTCH Energy Launches Canada Home Charging Program, Offering Homeowners Free EV Chargers and Ongoing Earnings for Charging – SWTCH Energy
Canadian homeowners can get a free Level 2 EV charger, plus earn money back each time they charge their car at home through Canada’s Clean Fuels Regulation Carb
swtchenergy.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🇨🇦💰🔌 ICYMI, charging provider SWTCH has launched a new Canadian program that hooks homeowners up with a free Level 2 charger and pays them to charge their EVs.
Learn more here👇 #cdnpoli
Learn more here👇 #cdnpoli
🤳🔋 A hail-and-ride electric public bus service is coming to Brampton in 2026, offering locals quieter rides that don't pollute the air—or their lungs.
Brampton, Argo launch on-demand electric bus partnership
Brampton says it's looking for a new way to move residents to the municipality’s major transit hubs with its electric, on-demand bus service
electricautonomy.ca
December 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
🤳🔋 A hail-and-ride electric public bus service is coming to Brampton in 2026, offering locals quieter rides that don't pollute the air—or their lungs.
🔌🚗💰 Torontonian Urs Villiger and his family share two EVs, so they no longer spend the $2,000 on gas they used to. But they're now saving even more—thanks to a newer home charging program paying EV drivers 3 to 5 cents an hour to take excess electricity from the grid.
They now pay under $2 a night.
They now pay under $2 a night.
Turning electric economics upside down, Toronto man paid to charge his EV at home
“When I heard that you can actually make money charging your EV, I said, ‘OK, let’s do this,” Urs Villiger says.
www.thestar.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🔌🚗💰 Torontonian Urs Villiger and his family share two EVs, so they no longer spend the $2,000 on gas they used to. But they're now saving even more—thanks to a newer home charging program paying EV drivers 3 to 5 cents an hour to take excess electricity from the grid.
They now pay under $2 a night.
They now pay under $2 a night.
🌏🔋💰📉 The global cost of building “giant, utility-scale batteries” plunged 40% in 2024, driving solar power—which these batteries complement—to cost levels that now rival new fossil fuel generation, a new @ember-energy.org report finds.
#energytransition #solar
#energytransition #solar
Cheaper Battery Storage Enabling ‘Anytime’ Solar, Ember Says
Batteries are getting cheaper and allowing solar power to be used beyond daylight hours, according to new analysis from clean energy think tank Ember.
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
🌏🔋💰📉 The global cost of building “giant, utility-scale batteries” plunged 40% in 2024, driving solar power—which these batteries complement—to cost levels that now rival new fossil fuel generation, a new @ember-energy.org report finds.
#energytransition #solar
#energytransition #solar
🇨🇦 Continued complacency risks a world in which Canada is left behind, paying incalculable costs in stranded assets and lost clean energy jobs, write Stefan Pauer, Andrew S. Wright, and Anil Hira.
In @nationalobserver.com👇 #cdnpoli #energytransition
In @nationalobserver.com👇 #cdnpoli #energytransition
American decline and Canadian complacency
China, our proposed major fossil fuel market, has already stated it will electrify rapidly and dispense with carbon dependency. The opportunity cost of not embracing and investing in next-generation t...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🇨🇦 Continued complacency risks a world in which Canada is left behind, paying incalculable costs in stranded assets and lost clean energy jobs, write Stefan Pauer, Andrew S. Wright, and Anil Hira.
In @nationalobserver.com👇 #cdnpoli #energytransition
In @nationalobserver.com👇 #cdnpoli #energytransition
🇨🇦⚡️ B.C. faces a triple heat threat—heatwaves, high energy bills, and emissions—but electric heat pumps, which both heat and cool, can tackle all three, write Clean Energy Canada's @janaelbrecht.bsky.social and Sicellia Tsui.
Read our new op-ed in @nationalobserver.com 👇 #bcpoli
Read our new op-ed in @nationalobserver.com 👇 #bcpoli
Heat pumps could cool BC without demanding too much power
In the summer, heat pumps protect their owners during scorching heat waves and keep them comfortable on less-intense days — while also filtering some of the air pollution from wildfire smoke, an incre...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🇨🇦⚡️ B.C. faces a triple heat threat—heatwaves, high energy bills, and emissions—but electric heat pumps, which both heat and cool, can tackle all three, write Clean Energy Canada's @janaelbrecht.bsky.social and Sicellia Tsui.
Read our new op-ed in @nationalobserver.com 👇 #bcpoli
Read our new op-ed in @nationalobserver.com 👇 #bcpoli
💰🍁 Our new report finds that under a provincewide switch to heat pumps, B.C. households currently on gas and electric resistance heating would collectively save $675 million a year while reducing provincial emissions by a whopping 6%. It does so while adding life-saving cooling for all.
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More for Less - Clean Energy Canada
British Columbia faces a triple heat threat: summers made dangerous by more frequent and more intense heat waves, rising electricity demand that puts home energy affordability at risk, and worsening c...
cleanenergycanada.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
💰🍁 Our new report finds that under a provincewide switch to heat pumps, B.C. households currently on gas and electric resistance heating would collectively save $675 million a year while reducing provincial emissions by a whopping 6%. It does so while adding life-saving cooling for all.
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🔌🏠💰 NEW REPORT | B.C. homes using electric resistance heating with AC could see $1,039 in annual bill savings under a provincewide shift to heat pumps and electrified water heating.
Gas-heated homes with AC would also save—about $358 a year.
More in the full release👇 #bcpoli
Gas-heated homes with AC would also save—about $358 a year.
More in the full release👇 #bcpoli
Switching all B.C. homes to heat pumps would save households $675 million a year while reducing grid demand and emissions: study - Clean Energy Canada
VANCOUVER — A new Clean Energy Canada report finds that while B.C. faces a triple threat—more extreme heat days, energy bills contributing to affordability concerns, and worsening climate impacts—ther...
cleanenergycanada.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🔌🏠💰 NEW REPORT | B.C. homes using electric resistance heating with AC could see $1,039 in annual bill savings under a provincewide shift to heat pumps and electrified water heating.
Gas-heated homes with AC would also save—about $358 a year.
More in the full release👇 #bcpoli
Gas-heated homes with AC would also save—about $358 a year.
More in the full release👇 #bcpoli
⚡️🏢 LAUNCH | We teamed up with @plugndrive.bsky.social to release an easy-to-use EV charger installation guide for Canadians living in apartments and for condo and strata boards looking to make their buildings EV-ready.
Check out the free, five-step guide here👇
#cdnpoli #EV
Check out the free, five-step guide here👇
#cdnpoli #EV
Make Your Condo EV Ready - Clean Energy Canada
Make Your Condo EV Ready is a comprehensive guide designed to support owners and residents, boards and councils, building management teams, and developers who wish to install electric vehicle (EV) cha...
cleanenergycanada.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
⚡️🏢 LAUNCH | We teamed up with @plugndrive.bsky.social to release an easy-to-use EV charger installation guide for Canadians living in apartments and for condo and strata boards looking to make their buildings EV-ready.
Check out the free, five-step guide here👇
#cdnpoli #EV
Check out the free, five-step guide here👇
#cdnpoli #EV
🇨🇦🔌💰“When asked about EVs, the most common thing (consumers) brought up was affordability,” says Simon Fraser University researcher Zoe Long.
Indeed, recent Clean Energy Canada research finds Canada in an affordable EV desert, while Europeans can access at least 21 such models.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #EV
Indeed, recent Clean Energy Canada research finds Canada in an affordable EV desert, while Europeans can access at least 21 such models.
#bcpoli #cdnpoli #EV
Ottawa's weak EV targets could stall BC's transition
Even in a sluggish sales year, BC commands a zero-emission EV market share of 20 per cent. Experts warn that by hitching its wagon to federal targets, the province will be weighed down by targets that...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🇨🇦📉 🔌⚡️ In this week's Clean Energy Review: B.C.’s climate accountability report comes at a critical time, the U.S. backslides on clean air, Yukoners could soon sell power back to the grid (again), and climate advocates warn they’re losing the information war. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
A moment to double down, not dial back
B.C.’s climate accountability report comes at critical time, the U.S backslides on clean air, Yukoners could soon sell power back to the grid (again), and climate advocates warn they’re losing the inf...
mailchi.mp
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🇨🇦📉 🔌⚡️ In this week's Clean Energy Review: B.C.’s climate accountability report comes at a critical time, the U.S. backslides on clean air, Yukoners could soon sell power back to the grid (again), and climate advocates warn they’re losing the information war. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
🇨🇦📉 Fixing Canada's broken EV market requires an end to the radio silence and a package of policies to improve access to more affordable EVs, aligned with Canada’s long-term economic aspirations, write @racheldoran.bsky.social and @joannakyriazis.bsky.social.
New op-ed in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli #EV
New op-ed in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli #EV
Canada broke its electric vehicle market in 2025 and it did so alone
The federal government made a number of decisions that have collectively broken Canada’s EV market over this past year, and while that likely wasn’t the intention, it has certainly been
www.thestar.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🇨🇦📉 Fixing Canada's broken EV market requires an end to the radio silence and a package of policies to improve access to more affordable EVs, aligned with Canada’s long-term economic aspirations, write @racheldoran.bsky.social and @joannakyriazis.bsky.social.
New op-ed in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli #EV
New op-ed in @thestar.com 👇 #cdnpoli #EV
☀️🔋🔌🏡 When Western Australia’s biggest grid went clean, electricity costs fell for customers.
#energytransition
#energytransition
Western Australia renewable energy generation delivers record on the SWIS
For the first time, renewable energy accounted for the majority of energy on Western Australia's South West Interconnected System in November at 55.78%.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
☀️🔋🔌🏡 When Western Australia’s biggest grid went clean, electricity costs fell for customers.
#energytransition
#energytransition
🌋🔌 In this changing coal town, one family is embracing geothermal as the world transitions.
“Maybe we’ll never go back to coal. We haven’t (gone) back to oil and gas, so we might just be geothermal people for quite some time, maybe generations, and then eventually something else will come along."
“Maybe we’ll never go back to coal. We haven’t (gone) back to oil and gas, so we might just be geothermal people for quite some time, maybe generations, and then eventually something else will come along."
In Colorado town built on coal, some families are moving on, even as Trump tries to boost industry
CRAIG, Colo. (AP) — The Cooper family knows how to work heavy machinery. The kids could run a hay baler by their early teens, and two of the three ran
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🌋🔌 In this changing coal town, one family is embracing geothermal as the world transitions.
“Maybe we’ll never go back to coal. We haven’t (gone) back to oil and gas, so we might just be geothermal people for quite some time, maybe generations, and then eventually something else will come along."
“Maybe we’ll never go back to coal. We haven’t (gone) back to oil and gas, so we might just be geothermal people for quite some time, maybe generations, and then eventually something else will come along."
🍁📉 B.C.’s new climate action report shows both real progress being made—2023 emissions declined by 4% from a year before—and rightly acknowledges there is more work to do, says @evanpivnick.bsky.social.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
B.C.’s climate accountability report comes at a critical time, highlighting what has worked and where progress must continue - Clean Energy Canada
VICTORIA — Evan Pivnick, clean energy program manager at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to B.C.’s 2025 Climate Change Accountability Report. “B.C.’s new Climate Change A...
cleanenergycanada.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🍁📉 B.C.’s new climate action report shows both real progress being made—2023 emissions declined by 4% from a year before—and rightly acknowledges there is more work to do, says @evanpivnick.bsky.social.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
🍁 One line in the government release—“It is B.C.’s strong view that there should not be different targets in B.C. and Canada”—undercuts the whole thing.
New op-ed from Clean Energy Canada's @evanpivnick.bsky.social and @trevormelanson.bsky.social👇 #bcpoli
New op-ed from Clean Energy Canada's @evanpivnick.bsky.social and @trevormelanson.bsky.social👇 #bcpoli
Opinion: B.C.’s updated EV mandate would have zero impact if province follows through on a proposed change
Many of the flexibilities are reasonable but then a single paragraph in the government release spoils the whole thing
vancouversun.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🍁 One line in the government release—“It is B.C.’s strong view that there should not be different targets in B.C. and Canada”—undercuts the whole thing.
New op-ed from Clean Energy Canada's @evanpivnick.bsky.social and @trevormelanson.bsky.social👇 #bcpoli
New op-ed from Clean Energy Canada's @evanpivnick.bsky.social and @trevormelanson.bsky.social👇 #bcpoli
🇨🇦🌋⚡️ Calgary-based Eavor—led by a former oilpatch executive—has begun supplying Germany’s grid with clean, always-on #geothermal power from a first-of-its-kind project in Geretsried.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
#abpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
Exclusive | A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town
A project in Bavaria is harnessing high temperatures from deep beneath the earth to provide a community with warmth in the winter and to power the local grid in the summer.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🇨🇦🌋⚡️ Calgary-based Eavor—led by a former oilpatch executive—has begun supplying Germany’s grid with clean, always-on #geothermal power from a first-of-its-kind project in Geretsried.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
#abpoli #cdnpoli #energytransition
☀️💵 Yukoners with solar-topped homes who aren't already connected to the territory's micro-generation program may soon get their chance.
According to CBC, the government is reviewing "conditions required to restart" the program.
#cdnpoli #yukon #energytransition #climateaction #affordability
According to CBC, the government is reviewing "conditions required to restart" the program.
#cdnpoli #yukon #energytransition #climateaction #affordability
Yukon government looking to restart renewable energy rebate program | CBC News
The new Yukon government says it's looking to restart a program that allows people to sell surplus renewable energy into the territorial grid. The program was paused two years ago by the previous gove...
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
☀️💵 Yukoners with solar-topped homes who aren't already connected to the territory's micro-generation program may soon get their chance.
According to CBC, the government is reviewing "conditions required to restart" the program.
#cdnpoli #yukon #energytransition #climateaction #affordability
According to CBC, the government is reviewing "conditions required to restart" the program.
#cdnpoli #yukon #energytransition #climateaction #affordability
🇹🇭💨📉 Thailand is close to passing its first-ever climate change law, which could a include cap-and-trade system as well as a new domestic carbon price. #energytransition #climateaction
Thailand Plans Emissions Trading, Carbon Taxes in Climate Law
Thailand’s government set out plans for new carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under the country’s first formal climate change legislation.
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🇹🇭💨📉 Thailand is close to passing its first-ever climate change law, which could a include cap-and-trade system as well as a new domestic carbon price. #energytransition #climateaction