VICTORIA — Mark Zacharias, government director at Clear Vitality Canada, made the next assertion in response to the discharge of B.C.’s Powering Our Future, B.C.’s Clear Vitality Technique:
“B.C.’s world-leading local weather technique is lowering emissions at residence and serving to British Columbians and companies make cleaner selections. However as we enter a brand new period of power, B.C. has lacked a technique for the quickly shifting power wants of the province.
“To that finish, the provincial authorities right this moment took an vital step in outlining a imaginative and prescient for a way we are going to construct out the clear power assets we want. Significant steps have been dedicated to—together with a pathways evaluation, an acknowledgment of the dimensions of power required and a dedication to an efficiency-first method—that may inform what path we take, making certain it’s cost-effective and helpful for British Columbians.
“Whereas this imaginative and prescient is promising, the federal government should now lay out its plans for implementation. In spite of everything, a imaginative and prescient is simply that with out a roadmap to make it actuality. By doing so, B.C. can be following the lead of lots of our allies and buying and selling companions which might be deploying clear power at tempo amid falling costs, the rising value of local weather impacts, and geopolitical battle. In the meantime, industries want to clear power to chop prices and households are shopping for EVs and warmth pumps to economize and enhance their high quality of life.
“Getting ready for this shift requires important work. B.C., like a lot of the remainder of Canada, might want to no less than double the dimensions of its electrical energy grid. However the advantages are higher nonetheless, and we aren’t venturing forth alone. Even right here at residence, practically each Canadian province has taken steps towards modernizing their power insurance policies.
“Going sluggish shouldn’t be an possibility. Lots of our opponents have already got power plans which might be attracting new funding and serving to households entry cheaper applied sciences. B.C. has a time-limited alternative to keep up its enviable place. This week’s announcement was an vital step ahead, however it’s the subsequent steps that may actually inform the effectiveness of the brand new method. We commend the federal government for its imaginative and prescient and stay up for working with them as they articulate how they’ll implement it.”
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Report | Making the Grade
Report | A Clear Invoice
White Paper | Modernizing power sector planning and oversight for a net-zero world
