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2010-2023

Peace Tower on the Canadian Parliament Building

Electrification is industrial strategy: It's time we see it that way

Buildings must play a bigger role as Canada’s electricity demand is set to surge

Report Cover: Innovative Charging, Assessing fleet acceptance of shared and "as-a-service" models for electric trucks

Innovative Charging

Assessing fleet acceptance of shared and “as-a-service" models for electric trucks

Chandan Bhardwaj

various old Pembina Institute logos

Customer Energy

Pembina report highlights how demand-side management reduces peak demand and lowers electricity costs

New Pembina program launched to scale demand-side solutions across Canada

Demand as a Utility Resource

Buildings, Customer Energy

Demand as a Utility Resource

Legislative and implementation pathways to demand-side management

Solar panels and wind turbines facing the sunset

Customer Energy

The clean energy transition needs a rulebook

Changing the rules to help the grid work better

AI data centre corridor with server racks on both sides

Customer Energy

The data centre energy debate is missing half the story

How much power data centres need is half the story. How they use electricity matters just as much.

Transmission lines in a field

How investing in clean electricity protects Canada’s future

Why clean electricity is essential to Canada’s security, sovereignty, and long term prosperity

Person installing rooftop solar panels at sunset

Buildings can be a demand-side driver for Canada’s National Electricity Strategy

A nation-building opportunity for economic growth, affordability and climate action

Electric car charging at recharging station in the street under green trees in summertime

Canada risks being left behind if it fails to align with the global auto market

Policy certainty will determine whether Canada attracts future auto investment

Buildings, Customer Energy

Historic Power Smart 2.0 plan a practical step towards affordable electricity investment in B.C.

Success depends on delivering savings at the scale needed for an affordable, reliable and fully electrified future

Graph showing increased carbon emissions

Electricity, Oil & Gas

The consequences of weakening Alberta’s industrial carbon pricing

Delay to 2040 leads to 230 megatonnes of additional GHG emissions from the oil sands

Close up of electric vehicle plugged into charger

Canada’s charging network depends on investor confidence in EV adoption

Strong vehicle emission limits will determine how quickly it is built

Chandan Bhardwaj

Portrait of Lejla Latifović

Electricity strategy confirms clean electrification will be backbone of Canada’s economy

Strategy has potential to align Canada with global trends towards clean energy, electrification

Portrait of Chris Severson-Baker

electricity transmission in rainy valley on vancouver island bc

Buildings, Electricity, Transportation

In this uncertain time, is B.C. putting our best tool - CleanBC - back on the shelf?

CleanBC was once viewed as a shining example of climate and economic planning, but there's been no formal response to an independent review report and no real climate measures in the 2026 budget

Portrait of Jessica McIlroy

Electricity, Oil & Gas, Sustainable Workforce

Federal economic update fails to advance clean energy as key to long-term resilience

Mini-budget confirms “clean, affordable, dependable electricity” as “central to long‑term economic strength,” but lacks action

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