Solar in Every Town

393. Solar in Every Town – A solution for an affordable 100% renewable grid

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca The solution to building a 100% renewable, affordable and resilient electricity …

How to integrate millions of solar & wind farms, batteries and EVs into our outdated 20th Century Grid

387. How to integrate millions of solar, wind, & battery systems & EVs into our outdated 20th Century Electricity Grids

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca It’s a ticking time bomb – how do we integrate millions …

The Energy Innovation Challenge

385. The Energy Innovation Challenge and piloting decentralized energy strategies in Medicine Hat

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca The energy transition is flipping our electricity grids upside down. Gone …

Virtual Power Plants

383. Virtual Power Plants – make money, save the grid

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca A Virtual Power Plant is simply a network of distributed energy …

Geothermal breakthrough

380. Cracking the geothermal nut – breakthrough can provide heat and power anywhere

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca EAVOR has pioneered a new kind of geothermal that can provide …

Summerside from no energy to the leader in renewable energy

377. Summerside the little city with no energy now leads Canada in renewable energy

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca In just one decade Summerside, Prince Edward Island has become the …

EVs are driving the price of electricity down.

376. EVs are driving the price of electricity down

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca It may sound counterintuitive, but a new study has found EVs …

Stephan Thomas co-author of Shifting power

337. A new regulation seeks to make Canada’s electricity grid net-zero by 2035

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca In 2021 Canada established an ambitious plan to transform Canada’s electricity …

The energy detective

181. The Energy Detective

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans What if we told you, with a few simple …

Austin Brown of the National Renewable Energy Lab keeps this hunk of coal on his desk as a reminder of what a kilowatt-hour of electricity actually is. Burning this softball sized piece of coal will give you roughly a kilowatt-hour worth of electricity. Photo courtesy of Austin Brown NREL.

102. Everything you wanted to know about a kilowatt-hour but were afraid to ask

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney  We’re very lucky here at Green Energy Futures to …

This concentrated solar thermal plant will supply superheated fluid to the city’s natural gas fired power plant, enough to generate one megawatt of electricity. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

88. Canada’s first concentrated solar thermal plant

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney More than three years ago Ted Clugston was showing …

Bullfrog Power offices in Toronto

48. Bullfrog Power – the story behind the cute little frog

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Wendell Berry once famously wrote that eating is an …