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Rising role of energy security in government policy could help drive acceleration of renewables and infrastructure construction projects by Mark Carney's Liberals, says Clean Energy Canada, as industry watchdog the International Energy Agency publishes latest global sector investment report

If Prime Minister Mark Carney wishes to turn the page on past governments and stand up to US President Donald Trump, a green industrial strategy is serious forward-looking leadership.

Could the water flowing from your tap also power the creation of electricity? In a word, yes. For the past ten years, Halifax Water in Nova Scotia has been doing just that by creating clean, renewable energy via an in-line turbine added to its water system infrastructure.

Soaring electricity demand and the growing impact of extreme weather are both leaving Canada's electrical grid exposed to outages and supply shortfall — but major investments could be made to change that, an energy watchdog finds.

Canada's "most consequential election in its history" is over. What’s next for the country with its economy facing so much global turbulence, not least the Trump tariff threat? We asked executives in the Canadian cleantech sector what they would put on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s energy transition to-do list at this crucial time.

Only 1.3 per cent of the country’s electricity came from photovoltaic projects last year, despite it having “all the building blocks” to be a northern solar superpower. That’s a big opportunity for the next government to take, says the lead author of a new report.

A $30 billion-plus project would link the two continents via a 4,000-kilometre underwater interconnector. Industry experts see it as financially and technologically viable. But could it really become a reality by 2040?

Construction has started on a 168-megawatt wind farm that will be the biggest clean energy development in the Canadian Maritimes and includes a key equity stake for local First Nations.

Putting up thousands of wind turbines and hundreds of solar farms, means more jobs, less global warming and less reliance on the boom and bust oil and gas sector that handcuffs us to the U.S.

If we don’t support our startups, Canadian corporations will have to look to international suppliers for the carbon-reduction technologies they’ll be required to adopt.

Looming 25 per cent levies on all Canadian exports to the U.S. are causing "uncertainty shock" in all industrial sectors but for climatetech companies trying to build commercial momentum they might be "decimating" – unless they can rethink their supply chain and export strategies.

A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report on Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc's push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration's pursuit of more fossil fuels.

Grist sat down with environmental journalist Marco Visscher to talk about his new book on the rise, fall, and return of nuclear.

B.C.’s new Energy Minister Adrian Dix could electrify the province’s low carbon economy if Premier David Eby’s NDP government opts to wean itself off LNG.

As BC Hydro’s call for power signals the province’s commitment to expanding clean energy capacity, with a minimum 25 per cent First Nations equity stake, the need for Indigenous participation has never been greater.