Making Renewable Energy a Priority - Pembina introduces a new series of primers and fact sheets
Renewable energy has the promise to become the energy power house of the 21st Century - creating jobs and new industries, and bringing improvements in air and water quality, energy security, access to energy, and community development. Meeting our future power demands is one of the first opportunities for rapid deployment of renewable energy. The Pembina Institute has launched a new series of primers and fact sheets that explain the policies and technologies that can bring this about. The first two are now available:
Feeding the Grid Renewably - A Primer and Fact Sheet describing what is arguably the best policy in the world for supporting renewable power.
Storing Renewable Power - A Primer that describes how new power storage technologies allow variable renewable power sources like solar and wind to supply all our power needs.
To find out about the new North American campaign to promote renewable power using feed in tariffs (called renewable energy payments in the United States) visit www.allianceforrenewableenergy.org.
Renewable is Doable for Ontario's Electricity Demands
Pembina has joined with World Wildlife Fund on landmark campaign that shows that Ontario's future electricity demand can be met mostly with clean and renewable sources of energy.
Pembina and its Ontario partners will be taking this message to the Ontario Energy Board as it reviews the Provinces Integrated Power System Plan. [More]
To read about the new Ontario Green Energy Act visit www.greenenergyact.ca.
Canada Keeps Low Profile at International Renewable Energy Conference
From March 3-6, 2008 ministers from around the globe along with 9000 other delegates met in Washington to discuss ways of scaling up renewable energy. At the Washington Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) - the largest renewable energy conference ever held - each country was asked to make major new policy commitments that will support new investment in renewable energy technology. Many countries came through with significant pledges. Canada made no new commitments and continues to lag behind the rest of the world on the use of renewable energy, missing out on what has been called the largest new market of the 21st century. Pembina participated in the conference as a member of the Canadian Renewable Energy Alliance (CanREA).
Read the WIREC conference summary by Pembina’s Roger Peters.
Download the background document describing how far Canada lags behind other countries.
