solar energy

Solar energy has an increasingly important role to play in combatting the global threat of climate change and helping Canada reach its 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, writes Robert Hornung of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association.

International Energy Agency expects green electricity to end coal’s 50-year reign by 2025

“We sometimes get obsessed with the absolute number. We should be thinking about the quality and types of jobs that end up coming into a Canadian environment," says Stewart Beck, head of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Industry leaders also said the Canadian playing field has become more level after Alberta and Ontario ended government rebates on solar energy upgrades.

As early as 1905, nearly 50 years before the first photovoltaic cell was put to use, the women of “Ladyland” were thriving on solar energy.

An Ottawa-area energy cooperative has revived two of the 758 energy contracts that Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled days after taking office — contracts that will help two district schools become self-sustainable in energy production and consumption.

Asia is leading the global surge in renewable energy jobs. In 2017, the renewable energy industry broke a symbolic threshold, employing over 10 million people, according to the International Renewable Energy Association's latest research.

Geothermal energy potential from abandoned oil and gas wells could solve many problems and help the environment.

French President Emmanuel Macron and the prime minister of India put forth a common front on the need to fight climate change on Saturday, June 3, 2017.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an impassioned appeal on May 30, 2017 for the world to intensify action to combat climate change and implement the Paris Agreement to limit carbon emissions.

The Alberta government is putting up $36 million over two years for a rebate program to encourage rooftop solar panels on homes and businesses.

The public energy company is researching how to integrate solar energy and consumer-generated electricity into Quebec's mostly hydroelectric network.

The "next generation" in a Star-Trek-obsessed southern Alberta community involves a solar park and art display.

David Suzuki says that variable renewable sources and “flexibility options” for conventional and renewable power generation are making baseload power obsolete.