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Happi Builds, R-Hauz partner on climate-friendly backyard homes
Happi, R-Hauz partner on sustainable backyard homes
Newly-launched Toronto company Happi Builds says it can address the housing and climate crises by supplying prefabricated, green homes for backyards. It starts by being the exclusive supplier of prefabricated accessory dwelling units from Toronto-based R-Hauz.
PepsiCo to match energy needs with renewables buy
PepsiCo Canada plans to purchase enough renewable energy to match 100 per cent of its operations this year – translating to more than 160,000 megawatt-hours of electricity each year. This is equal to powering more than 14,000 Canadian homes per year.
DevvStream launches clear carbon trading platform
Vancouver-based DevvStream has announced the launch of its Buildings and Facilities Carbon Offset Program, a blockchain-based project that has the potential of revolutionizing the carbon trading market by shining a light into its inner workings.
Smart Grid Lab anticipates innovation, sustainability
The Schneider Electric Smart Grid Lab at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s Centre for Urban Energy stands as an example of the public-private partnerships needed to anticipate sustainability, innovation and to train the incoming workforce.
Greek company to build $1.7B of solar in Alta.
Mytilineos Holdings is leading a $1.7-billion project to build five solar power projects in Alberta that it says will be the largest of its kind in Canada by generating electricity for 200,000 homes by the end of 2026.
Desjardins to finance Que. wind farms by $350M
Desjardins is providing up to $350 million in financing toward Alliance de l'Énergie de l'Est so it can invest in renewable energy projects and qualify for requests for proposals from Hydro-Québec in eastern Quebec and the Magdalen Islands.
Westbridge secures financing for Alta. solar projects
Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation has announced that it has secured financing to fund its pipeline of projects in Alberta under development by its subsidiaries, and to fund development of solar energy and battery energy storage system projects.
Where will the “Energy Transition Valley” be located?
Québec has announced the creation of the “Energy Transition Valley” bringing together the cities of Trois-Rivières, Bécancour and Shawinigan. This new innovation zone is the third recognized by the government after DistriQ in Sherbrooke and Technum Québec in Bromont.
How will the EV switch affect real estate planning?
As many automakers look to follow Tesla into the electric vehicle market, the shift could change how real estate developers and building owners plan new projects. One professor believes development owners will feel pressured to add overnight charging at apartments.
Halifax condo residents struggle to add solar panels
Condo residents in the Armdale neighbourhood of Halifax want to join the fight against climate change. But complex provincial regulations on electricity that ban collective ownership are holding the community back due to the individual financial burden.
McMaster greenhouse to become a geothermal gem
Construction is underway on a massive, new, state-of-the-art greenhouse at the McMaster University campus that will be heated and cooled with emissions-free geothermal energy. The 11,400-square-foot greenhouse will be the first on campus to use a sustainable geothermal system.
Concrete efforts to reduce GHGs throughout Quebec
In the mining sector as elsewhere, companies are increasing their efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Several mining companies in Quebec are also making ambitious carbon footprint commitments that even go as far as carbon neutrality.
Truckers says they can't meet B.C.’s emissions goal
The B.C. government’s increased support to help the commercial-vehicle sector reach its goal to eliminate emissions by the end of the decade is welcome, but it won’t solve the key obstacle, says the president of the BC Trucking Association.
Meet the companies pitching hydrogen projects in N.L.
Executives from eight companies had five minutes each to make their pitch at the Energy NL conference in St. John's. While details of some projects have been widely publicized, it was a first glimpse at the faces behind some others.
What can we expect from clean hydrogen in Canada?
The hydrogen fuel industry is earning interest across Canada as a cleaner alternative for vehicles and industry. Others suggest expectations should be tempered, as most hydrogen is produced through fossil fuel-based energy, negating their cleanliness.
Canada faces new stringent global methane standards
Canada has been a world leader in regulating methane emissions, being ahead on oil and gas regulations ahead of other major emitters, but it needs to now update those regulations or risk falling behind the U.S. and Europe, experts say.
Oil sands decarbonization uncertain after UCP win
As Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party (UCP) celebrates Monday’s election win in Alberta, the province’s oil and gas sector remains in the dark over how much financial support the new government will offer it to decarbonize.
More money goes to solar power than oil for first time
The upheaval in oil and gas markets is helping fuel a clean-energy boom as countries scramble to secure their power supply. Investment in solar outpaced that in oil for the first time last year, according to the International Energy Agency.
Renewables investments threatened by weak returns
Investments in clean energy are roaring past spending on fossil fuels as the world decarbonizes. But to keep up the momentum, governments will have to make up for thin shareholder returns by helping fund green projects, executives say.
Panama ready to cash in on its copper boom
Panama is sitting on massive reserves of copper and other minerals crucial to the energy transition. Now it – and other Latin American nations – are wringing massive concessions from mining companies like Vancouver’s First Quantum Minerals.
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