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1. Pembina’s renewable revolution requires a rethink

   Recently, Binnu Jeyakumar, director of the Pembina Institute’s electricity program, published an article in the Edmonton Journal, essentially claiming that the renewable power revolution in Alberta is nigh, and exhorting everyone to get ...

2. High cost of renewables—a made-in-Ontario problem

   A recent CBC News article discussed how market-based bidding structures have pushed down the electricity costs generated by renewable sources in Mexico and other places around the world. In Mexico’s case, the Italian company ENEL signed ...

3. Renewable power (wind, solar) gets 72% of energy subsidies in the U.S.

   A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy makes for some interesting reading—well, if you’re an energy policy wonk with no life. The report examines whether the U.S. electricity grid, as it’s evolving, is likely to remain as reliable ...

4. The reality of Canada’s ‘renewable revolution’

   A report out last month from the National Energy Board shows the reality of the “renewables revolution” we constantly hear will let us end our use of fossil fuels. Canada does have a large amount of renewable energy. It’s called water. ...

5. Trudeau gets a lesson on energy poverty by Ontario resident

   In a video now circulating around the Internet, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets an earful from a distressed Ontarian over the insane cost of electricity in the province. Holding a hydro bill of more than $1,000 in her shaking hands, ...

6. Wind and solar power makes sense in far-flung places

   I’m typically skeptical about proposals for massive, widespread deployment of wind and solar power. My problem with the idea is that these sources are intermittent, meaning we need to maintain 100 per cent backup power that we don’t ...

7. High electricity prices putting rural Ontario in energy poverty

   Ontario’s dramatic electricity price increases garnered national attention recently when a report last week on “Global National” highlighted how energy poverty is a growing concern for rural Ontarians. According to the report, even small ...

8. Who suffers most from high energy prices in Canada?

   We all know that humans consume a lot of energy. It lets us cook our food, heat our homes, clean our clothes, and get to work. In fact, using energy to convert resources and provide goods and services is responsible for a lot of our ...

9. Green energy schemes mainly enrich the better-off

   A recent study from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley puts some hard numbers to a phenomenon that students of environmental policy have long suspected: many “green energy” initiatives are disproportionally pushing ...

10. Climate Change: It’s Not the Science, It’s the Policy

    Appeared in VancouverSun.com The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest “Synthesis Report” drawing together the findings of the most recent three-volume set of the Fifth Assessment Report. The Assessment Report is ...