Leading Canada's transition to clean energy
We advocate for strong, effective policies with a multi-faceted and highly collaborative approach to support Canada’s clean energy transition.
It’s time to electrify Canada
Canada’s electricity strategy announcement recognizes electrification as the backbone of a strong, resilient modern economy. Now let’s get to work.
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Leading the transition to clean energy requires solutions to today’s energy challenges from various angles.
The Pembina Institute has spent four decades working to reduce the environmental impacts of Canada’s energy production and provide actionable ideas on how to implement clean energy.
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Unable to find a private company to back pipeline, governments resort to 90% taxpayer ownership
Today’s announcement breaks two promises that the federal and Alberta governments have repeatedly made to Canadians – that a pipeline would be privately financed and would be contingent on oilsands companies reducing their emissionsGreenlight Electricity Centre, and “tripling” of Canadian LNG exports, to further push up electricity prices for Albertans
Current policy in Alberta means new data centres will be powered with gas – leaving lower-cost options unexploredFederal-B.C. deal recognizes clean energy, electrification central to economic strength
Commitment to explore national carbon credit framework could help all Canadians to electrify their livesFull year without private sector interest confirms new West Coast pipeline is political, not economic
Despite extraordinary efforts by both the federal and provincial governments to clear the way for a pipeline to move ahead, companies recognize the near-term reality of peaking global oil demandThe energy transition is accelerating
In 2025, renewables produced more electricity than coal (33%) globally
of vehicle sales are now electric (25% globally, 50% in China)
Prices for solar and batteries have dropped by more than 90% since 2010
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