2022-2025 Energy Action Plan DevelopmentPembina Institute comments and recommendations

Publication - March 30, 2022 - By Dave Lovekin, Director, Renewables in Remote Communities, Pembina Institute
2022-2025 EAP Recommendations
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The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) created a 2030 Energy Strategy, which sets out the GNWT’s long-term approach to supporting secure, affordable, and sustainable energy in the Northwest Territories. The strategy highlights six main objectives: 

  1. Work together to find solutions: community engagement, participation and empowerment.  
  2. Reduce GHG emissions from electricity generation in diesel powered communities by an average of 25%.  
  3. Reduce GHG emissions from transportation by 10% on a per person basis. 
  4. Increase the share of renewable energy used for space heating to 40%. 
  5. Increase residential, commercial, and government building energy efficiency by 15%.  
  6. A longer term vision: develop the NWT’s energy potential, address industry emissions, and do our part to meet national climate change objectives. 

The GNWT started implementing the strategy through their 2019-2022 Energy Action Plan, and started seeking input from the public to develop their 2022-2025 Energy Action Plan. As part of the public input process, the GNWT asked stakeholders to reply to four questions about the progress made in the 2019-2022 Energy Action Plan as well as opportunities for improvement. These questions included: 

  • What actions and initiatives from the 2019-2022 Energy Action Plan should the GNWT keep in the next Action Plan, and why? 

  • How could the GNWT improve the current actions and initiatives? 

  • What new project or action could the GNWT initiate in the 2022-2025 Energy Action Plan to reduce emissions, help stabilize or decrease the cost of energy, and maintain energy security in the North? 

  • What is the most important energy issue currently affecting your community? How could it be addressed? 

This document includes recommendations from the Pembina Institute for the 2022-2025 Energy Action Plan including:  

  • Increasing opportunities for Indigenous and community leadership in the clean energy transition by:  

  • Supporting the development of community-led community energy plans  

  • Actively developing partnerships and supporting Indigenous-led energy projects  

  • Implementing a formalized, government-backed IPP policy with favourable and accurate rates  

  • Ramping up emissions reduction plans to track with federal and international GHG reduction commitments  

  • Approaching the clean energy transition as an economic opportunity  

Tags:  Provincial Policy, The North, Renewable Energy, Indigenous Communities, Publications, NWT

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