A higher carbon price does not reduce the need for activist, sector specific, policy. It makes green industrial policy more urgent (and effective). I list 5 reasons why, in this blog for @broadbent.

Under the new 🇨🇦Clean Electricity Regulations, let's make paying people for energy efficiency the first resort and natural gas the last @s_guilbeault @JonathanWNV .

We have an affordability and climate crisis . So why are policies paying gas power plants for grid reliability when we could be paying people?. Read this article on why 🇨🇦 should prioritize energy efficiency & demand flexibility for a clean grid.

Provinces are realizing that they need energy efficiency to manage affordability and growing clean electricity demand. @jamesgaede gives rundown of provincial policies and what governments should do next for @IRPP .

The latest data shows energy efficiency program savings and spending increasing in Canada.

Today's Clean Electricity Regulations gives leeway for gas plants to operate in a "net-zero" grid. That's makes the energy efficiency and demand flex policies in the new strategy all the more important. You can read a review here.

Lots going on today, but did you know. The #cdnpoli Fall Economic Statement tops up $40k interest-free loans for energy retrofits.

RT @AffordabilityAC: 🤔 Did you know? New research from @IRPP shows that emissions pricing isn't the inflation driver many think it is. Rou….

The @OntarioNDP is proposing expanding bill assistance to natural gas and fuel oil heated homes - created a social safety net against energy poverty.

“Nova Scotia's leadership position in energy efficiency has been overtaken by other provinces, including its closest neighbours.” #nspoli.

If you are at the end of this thread, perhaps you are a policy analyst, student, business that can use the shiny new policy tracking database. You can search the policy details across province and issue area.

This Scorecard shows several provinces significantly ramping up low-income energy efficiency because energy poverty is a real problem. The feds should lead by making eliminating energy poverty a national priority. Here is a blog on how.

Here’s a whole report about how to modernize the Energy Efficiency Act with @CLASPappliances .

The federal Energy Efficiency Act regulates appliance and equipment. It is time to “modernize" the Act to catch up to our digital world and to enable energy and cost savings by optimizing the timing and location of energy use.

The federal gov’t can also help customers getting paid for lowering grid costs by heating their hot water tanks, EVs, and other appliances during low-cost periods when the wind is blowing, or when demand is low. #demandflexibility #virtualpowerplants.

The feds can re-balance its spending policies, and help customer affordability, by orienting federal programs like the Smart Renewables and Electrification Program towards demand-side solutions.

There is also a section on what the federal government can do. Federal tax credit policies have neglected demand side solutions, which means either taxpayers or ratepayers are going to pay for more expensive and less reliable electricity systems.

You can find all the details on other provinces and territories in the full scorecard report and province-specific one-pagers and websites .

Nova Scotia needs a more consistent policy framework for getting people and businesses off oil, while saving electricity. It also needs to implement policies like mandatory labeling and existing building standards to complement its tradition of programs leadership @TimHoustonNS.

Nova Scotia dropped from previous Scorecards. It isn’t that its performance has gone down – other provinces have gone up and are overtaking this traditional leader in efficiency programs.

In 2023 NB saved the most fossil fuels as % of sales in the country and is 2nd in low-income program spending. The new @susanholt gov’t should look at the policies in a 2022 Climate Plan, including building labeling, net-zero building codes, and oil heat phase-out to save more.