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The time is long overdue for the overhaul of our outdated 20th Century Electricity Grid to integrate millions of solar, wind, batteries, EVs and other decentralized energy resources.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Howaida and her family first dipped their toes in the world of electric vehicles by purchasing a small short-range EV and eventually took the plunge and went all-electric with both family vehicles. It all started when their non-electric Smart Car seemed too small for kids and hockey gear.
First the three nations of Fort Chipewyan built a solar project to offset 25% of the diesel electricity generation, now they are bringing electric vehicles to the north.
Indigo Park Canada is adding 500 new EV chargers to its parking facilities in Canada. It’s all part of a transformation of the parking industry. Tomorrow’s parking lots will provide parking, EV charging and even play host to fleets of EVs in the off hours.
This Canadian EV calculator takes real-time grid data and lets you compare emissions from EVs vs gas vehicles – spoiler alert – EVs produce a lot fewer emissions even in provinces with dirty grids. The calculator also allows you to compare fuel costs of electric versus gas vehicles and these results may surprise you!
Let’s face it an electric vehicle charger on the wall of a store just doesn’t cut it. That’s why Electric Autonomy Canada set out to create the ultimate Electric Fuelling Station of the Future in an international design competition. The winning designs will knock your socks off.
What are the most important barriers to electric vehicle adoption? What do EV drivers really need at an EV charging station? In search of the ultimate EV charging station, Electric Autonomy Canada surveyed EV drivers – We talk to Ilana Weitzman this week on Green Energy Futures.
2021 was the year of net-zero. Nations, cities, companies, and even home builders are involved in making pledges. We look at net-zero the goal and three innovations from the journey to net-zero including an inspiring net-zero passive house, the world’s most efficient windows, and an innovative smart home energy system.
The future is not solar, batteries, electric vehicles, or hydrogen – it’s all of the above and more. And this is why the University of British Columbia is building a Renewable Energy Hub, a city-block-sized living lab that seeks to optimize the use of renewable technologies to get to a zero-emissions future.
Which can fuel your vehicle to go further? An oil well pump-jack extracting oil or a 750-kilowatt solar farm covering the same footprint? We do the math.
Li-Cycle is a Canadian company from Ontario that is taking the mounting heap of battery waste and turning 95 per cent of it into gold – battery-grade raw materials for new batteries. This is the very definition of a circular economy and a secure supply of batteries for electric vehicles.
$300 billion in investment, 700 new EV models and numerous stunning trends mark 2020 as the tipping point for the EV Revolution. The only question is how fast the revolution will take hold and transform the transportation industry around the world. We look back on 2020 with Norman Crowley of the Cool Planet Group, Eddie Robar, transit boss in Edmonton, and Leon Milner e-bike enthusiast.
Batteries Included – In part II of our series on Edmonton’s e-bus revolution, we visit the Kathleen Andrews Transit Garage for eletric buses which boasts a dramatic art installation on the roof of this stainless steel expanse of post-industrial design.
Edmonton has quietly become a national leader in electric buses and is counting on these zero-emissions vehicles to reduce operating costs.
How a 2000 horsepower 1963 Corvette Stingray, energy efficiency and wisdom fits into Norman Crowley’s recipe for cooling the planet and tackling and taming the scourge of climate change.
