June 10, 2024 Provinces hold the wheel on big energy, investment, and infrastructure decisions, but are they taking the right steps to build more sustainable economies? Clean Energy Canada has graded each province between A+ and D on its progress toward building a sustainable economy, illuminating Canada’s leaders and laggards. Provincial action ranges greatly, and…
June 10, 2024 By Blake Marchand The city of Vancouver is the first Canadian jurisdiction to pass a by-law regulating building emissions. The Annual Greenhouse Gas and Energy Limits bylaw will come into effect June 1st, 2024, and requires building owners for large commercial offices, retail, and residential buildings over 100,000 sq ft to report…
June 4, 2024 A First Nations community in the Northern Territory has been battling chronic power shortages and high electricity bills for years. Desperate to keep the lights on and struggling to get government support, the people of Marlinja have taken matters into their own hands. The community is setting up its own clean energy power…
June 3, 2024 Utility substations require extremely precise sub-millisecond time synchronization to facilitate improved location of faults, multi-rate billing, power-flow monitoring and event reconstruction Precise timekeeping is fundamental to the function of the power grid and is used in many applications to improve reliability, reduce costs, predict and prevent faults, and check operation of devices….
Electricity Retailing – Disclosure to Consumers, O. Reg. 416/99, requires to disclose to consumers the Ontario system-Wide Electricity Supply Mix in the manner established by the Ontario Energy Board. The Board’s Directive for the Disclosure of information to consumers by Electricity Retailers under Ontario Regulation 416/99 prescribes the manner and timing requirements of this disclosure. The Directive applies to all retailers, including distributors that provide standard supply services.
May 27, 2024 The search for renewable sources of energy has pushed the electrical industry to look into cutting-edge methods of generating and utilizing power in recent years and Water Treatment Plants are not an exception for being essential to ensuring a clean water supply. This case study explores the partnership between a Water Treatment Plant…
May 27, 2024 How is the apprentice-to-journeyperson ratio changing? All trades currently use a ratio of no more than two apprentices for each journeyperson (a 2:1 ratio). The department is amending this to a 1:1 apprentice to journeyperson ratio. The regulation will come into effect later this calendar year. Why is the change being implemented?…
May 27, 2024 By Keith Sones, seasoned utility industry executive “That’s a great idea!” I said enthusiastically. My boss had just given me my first commission as a new safety and health professional, and I was eager to applaud his proactivity. Low in the food chain, I figured it couldn’t hurt to burnish his ego a…
May 21, 2024 The B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) released a comprehensive analysis of how advancements in energy storage can facilitate higher levels of renewable energy adoption. The “Powering the Future with Energy Storage” report answers three urgent questions surrounding the future of the electricity system and grid decarbonization: “Enabling efficient integration of…
May 21, 2024 On a year-over-year basis, primary energy production increased 2.6% in February to 1.9 million terajoules, while secondary energy increased 1.3% to 0.4 million terajoules. As 2024 is a leap year, February’s data contain a 29th calendar day. This additional day should be taken into consideration when looking at year-over-year comparisons with February 2023 data. In terms of average daily production, both primary (-0.9%)…
Electrification, renewable energy, electric vehicles, an aging electrical grid, data centres are all key factors in the increased demand for electrical distribution equipment.
May 9, 2024 By Blake Marchand At this year’s EV & Charging Expo, hosted by Electric Autonomy, Siemens made a significant announcement, introducing their zero-emission fleet management services, Depot360 Managed Services and Depot360 CaaS (Charging-as-a-Service). Faisal Kazi, CEO of Siemens Canada and Theresa Cooke, Head of Global Customer Success, Managed Charging for Siemens took part…
April 23, 2024 The La Gabelle power station, located between the municipalities of Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel and Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, on the Saint-Maurice River, is celebrating 100 candles! It was on April 14, 1924 that the first four turbine-alternator groups began to produce electricity. A fifth group was added in 1931. The power station has been supplying Hydro-Quebec customers…
April 9, 2024 BluWave-ai and Envari Energy Solutions (Envari) announced the results of an initial project for a countrywide Canadian school bus operator for how it can achieve 95% fleet electrification using AI-driven optimization. The school bus operator has between 500 to 1,000 school buses at multiple regional facilities in Canada. They plan to convert…
April 9, 2024 On April 3 and April 5, 2024, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) issued two separate Grid Alerts, notifying Albertans of generation shortfalls. The April 5, 2024, incident also prompted brief rotating outages across the province. Marie-France Samaroden, AESO Vice President, Grid Reliability, provided an overview of the Grid Alerts to the…
April 9, 2024 A new report from the Pembina Institute, Better Buildings for All: Relieving energy poverty through deep retrofits, calls for urgent investments in deep retrofits to alleviate energy poverty for low-income households. The report, released today, calls on senior orders of federal and provincial governments and utilities to take decisive action against energy poverty,…