Jeremy Kureluk of Rental Bus Lines has been uses electric buses since 2017 in Stony Plain, Alberta. They just picked up a 2023 model and want more. We talk to him about range, winter performance, maintenance and more.
The winners of the Decentralised Energy Canada – Medicine Hat Energy Innovation Challenge will pilot their solutions for the integration of electric vehicles, solar and wind power systems, batteries, and new electric appliances like heat pumps into the Medicine Hat, Alberta grid.
One of the big, often overlooked solutions to overhauling our electricity grid better to accommodate EVS, solar, wind and batteries is software, AI and smart grid technology. We talk to Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Siemens Grid Software about how we have to turn our thinking upside down to build the smart, reliable and resilient electricity grid that will have millions of distributed energy resources instead of just a few giant power plants.
The Energy Innovation Fair is back bigger and better than ever in Red Deer on Oct. 18-19. The theme is economic diversification and energy transition with a stellar line-up of speakers, panels, booths and demonstrations touching on solar, geothermal, advanced hydrocarbons, EVs and more.
The time is long overdue for the overhaul of our outdated 20th Century Electricity Grid to integrate millions of solar, wind, batteries, EVs and other decentralized energy resources. Decentralised Energy Canada and the City of Medicine Hat are running the Energy Innovation Challenge not just to integrated these distributed energy sources, but to make the grid more resilient and reliable.
The long awaited breakthrough for geothermal energy could be upon us. Demand for energy security, renewable baseload electricity and dramatic improvements in technology could mean the long-awaited Earth energy revolution is here. This is our complete guide to geothermal energy, from shallow geoexchange systems that heat our homes to utility-scale projects that produce heat and electricity for entire towns.
Told solar wouldn’t work in their town in southern Alberta, Raymond installed solar everywhere and became the first municipality to reach net-zero electricity in Canada. Since then many have followed suit. This is their story.
Climate change, once seen as a distant future concern, is now an urgent issue for towns and cities grappling with wildfires, floods, droughts, and extreme weather. In Pincher Creek, Alberta, they are taking proactive steps, conducting a risk assessment, and implementing adaptive measures through the MCCAC program.
Small towns and cities with neither the money, expertise or capacity to undertake energy efficiency or solar projects. The Municipal Climate Change Action Centre knows this so they helped 26 municipalities hire energy managers who are doing just that.
Not many people have heard of the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre in Alberta, but since 2009 they have worked with more than 150 municipalities helping them save $166 million by doing energy efficiency projects, installing solar and EV chargers and implementing climate resilience action plans.
Virtual Power Plants are created by aggregating tens, hundreds, or thousands of smaller energy generation projects such as solar with energy storage and this simple, efficient system can provide peaking power at 40% less cost than a peaking power plant. It’s all part of building a smart grid that can integrate various distributed technologies to provide reliable, affordable electricity.
Agrivoltaics, the idea of integrating farming with solar farms is helping farmers generate new sources of income, keep the family farm viable and keep the farm in the solar farm. We talk to Claude Mindorf an agrivoltaics solar developer and Shawn Morton who is farming a solar farm in Alberta.
Alberta burned it’s last lump of coal to produce electricity on June 16, 2024 at 10:57 pm. This represents the largest emissions reduction action in Canada. We look at what it all means and where Alberta goes from here in our interview with Scott MacDougall of the Pembina Institute.
EAVOR is an Alberta-based geothermal company that has pioneered a game-changing closed-loop geothermal technology that means you build geothermal projects anywhere and produce affordable base load heat and power. This could be the missing link in the clean energy revolution.
This amazing Green Infill project has 16-units which replaced 2 single-family homes with tasteful townhome style Passive House homes that are super energy efficient and are providing desperately needed new affordable housing. We meet up with developers David and Melissa Campbell of Homestretch to get the low down.
When Vancouver’s former Mayor Gregor Robertson came up with the campaign slogan of creating the greenest city who knew it would be his most popular focus area. Robertson, Vancouver’s longest-serving mayor left office after 10 years in 2018. He’s moved on, but we look back at his idea of creating the Greenest City in the World.
The small City of Summerside PEI went from no electricity production to 62% renewable energy using a clever combination of smart grid technology, energy storing appliances, energy storage and renewable energy.
Contrary to what you might think, EVs have driven down the U.S.’s electricity price and increased net profits for utilities. This is thanks to time-of-use pricing leading to much more efficient use of existing grid infrastructure.
On the occaision of their 10th anniversary, we speak to The Energy Mix publisher Mitchell Beer who founded the independent media service 10 years ago. Since then they have published 30,000 stories on climate change.
EV’s really do produce fewer lifecycle emissions even in countries with dirty electricity grids. We talk to Corey Cantor of Bloomberg NEF. They looked at EVs and ICE vehicles in five countries with dirty and cleaner grids and in all cases EVs reduce emissions dramatically.
