The capabilities of today’s energy management and distributed generation solutions are enabling utilities to evolve and augment the services, solutions, and products they can offer to customers.
Discussing the Hi-Tech Valiant™ Fuse for Fire Mitigation with ABB’s Dominique Tardif
February 26, 2025 By Blake Marchand Safe Software is a company specializing in data integration, acting like the ‘connective tissue’ bringing together an organization’s systems, providing a single unified view of business operations. Bringing their systems together by utilizing Safe Software, company CEO, Don Murray explained to me that organizations can, for example, have processes…
February 25, 2025 As power systems become more complex and industries rely increasingly on sensitive electronic equipment, onsite power quality metering is becoming an essential tool for facility operators. In a recent discussion featuring Dan Davis from Hammond Power Solutions and Ali Halimi from SMAART Power, key insights were shared about the importance of power quality…
February 24, 2025 Canada’s installed capacity of wind energy, solar energy & energy storage is now more than 24 GW, up by 46% in the last five years. The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) is pleased to release a new, five-year industry data report announcing that Canada’s wind, solar and energy-storage sectors have grown by…
February 24, 2025 Released as part of EHRC’s Award of Excellence event this month, Lighting the Path is a labour market study that aims to collaborate with and learn from Indigenous communities to create a sustainable and inclusive energy future that aligns with their traditional values and aspirations. This study focuses on understanding the workforce capacity…
January 24, 2025 By Jake Brooks Energy competition does not need to be limited to the wholesale level. The potential benefits of wider and more open competition were recently evidenced when Ontario’s electric grid operator and a local utility decided to set up and test Canada’s first local electricity market through the IESO York Region…
January 22, 2025 Solar Nova Scotia have introduced the first episode in their Atlantic Canada Solar Summit Podcast Series. The series is presented alongside the Reimagined Energy Podcast hosted by Maria McGowan.
Canadians are very much on the electrification movement and utilities very much need to be able to keep up and provide a very modernized, efficient and resilient grid. Utilities are in a transformative period as they begin to implement new technologies that will enable a reliable grid in support of an increasingly electrified economy.
January 21, 2025 Electricity Canada’s Technology Committee released a new report to compile key insights in how digital technology will shape our energy future. Members from across the country have worked together to draft this publication on best practices in dealing with the opportunities and challenges of the national shift towards electrification and the “4Ds”…
January 21, 2025 The PWU released a synopsis of its previous four discussion papers. These papers were offered to prompt discussion on better ways for Ontario to meet its growing electricity demand at a lower cost, with lower carbon emissions and in a more reliable, affordable and timely manner. Ontario’s Powering Ontario’s Growth (POG) report…
In 2023, Newfoundland Power undertook a significant project in modernizing their customer information system, taking a customer and employee centric approach.
January 8, 2025 Trends identified in NERC’s 2024 Long-Term Reliability Assessment (LTRA) highlight critical reliability challenges that industry is facing over the next 10 years: satisfying escalating energy growth, managing generator retirements and removing barriers to resource and transmission development. As a result, well over half of the continent is at elevated or high risk…
The federal government has announced that Canada will aim to reduce emissions by 45–50% below 2005 levels by 2035, setting a target that maintains the country’s path to a strong, net-zero economy.
Electricity Canada is proud to announce the eight winning projects inducted in its Centre of Excellence for 2024.
November 27, 2024 As Canada accelerates its transition to a sustainable energy future, the landscape for renewable energy and energy storage procurements is evolving rapidly. There has never been so much investment in new, affordable, clean sources of electricity. To support this shift, CanREA is excited to introduce their Clean Energy Procurement Calendar—a tool designed to…