Clean Energy Canada

🍁⚡️🏠 We're hopeful that today’s announced changes will enhance efficiencies across Ontario’s 58 utilities while keeping costs down for ratepayers, says Clean Energy Canada's Catherine Jeffery. #onpoli

🇨🇦🔌 Taking an all-electric road trip to Canada's oldest provincial park just got easier. #onpoli #EV

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Used EVs offer big savings for Canadians, Ottawa's auto strategy sends mixed signals, and Europe's electric shift picks up speed. #cdnpoli #EV

🇨🇦🔌🏢 Clean Energy Canada is among the organizations that have signed the open letter. "Measures that get more charging stations into condo and apartment buildings will unlock the cost savings and convenience EVs provide for more Canadians," says Rachel Doran, our executive director. #cdnpoli #EV

🇨🇦🔌 Policies meant to help ensure Canadians' access to EVs have just been delayed, Clean Energy Canada's Evan Pivnick told CBC. #cdnpoli #onpoli

🇨🇦 The unexpected delay in stronger vehicle pollution standards will impact the benefits of increased EV uptake, including thousands in household fuel savings and up to $21 billion in charging investment, says Clean Energy Canada's Evan Pivnick. #cdnpoli

🇪🇺🔋 Subaru is leaving behind its gas models and shifting to an all-electric lineup in Europe by the end of 2027. #EV #energytransition

🇨🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺 Canada has long let American preferences dictate what we drive. But we now face a choice, and the answer should be a "no-brainer," write Clean Energy Canada's Joanna Kyriazis and Trevor Melanson. Read our new Toronto Star op-ed👇 #cdnpoli #EV

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Canada's EV market is regaining momentum after a sluggish 2025. In August, EVs accounted for 13% of all new cars sold—a recovery that did not happen by chance. #cdnpoli #EV

🍁📈 A year ago, Canadians had just one EV option under $40,000. Today, there are 11, says Clean Energy Canada's Graham Anderson. #cdnpoli #EV

🍁🔌 NEW POLL: British Columbians overwhelmingly favour renewables (60%) over natural gas (17%) to meet growing electricity demand in the province. #bcpoli

🇨🇦🇪🇺⚡️ Electrification writ large is the broader vision and opportunity of a deepened Canada-EU partnership, writes Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. Read our new op-ed 👇 #cdnpoli #criticalminerals

🔌💰📈 Electricians are "absolutely essential" for the energy transition, yet they will be in short supply—a problem some colleges and organizations are working to fix through mythbusting. For one, utilities workers earn about $55/hour, well above the Canadian average. #cdnpoli #energytransition

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Installing a heat pump just got cheaper, a tale of two EV markets, and natural gas nudges Canada’s emissions into the red.

🇨🇦🇺🇸🚗 “Closer alignment with European vehicle standards would help ensure Canadians have access to the EVs they want—not just the ones Americans buy,” says Clean Energy Canada's Trevor Melanson. #cdnpoli #EV

🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸 "Just short of half of Canadians want the country’s vehicle market to become more like Europe’s—with more compact and electric options," writes Automotive News. Read the full story👇 www.autonews.com/regulation-s...

🇨🇦🔌 NEW POLL: Nearly half of Canadians (48%) now say they're leaning toward an EV for their next vehicle, up three percentage points since April, according to our latest survey with Abacus Data. #cdnpoli #EV

NEW: Our latest early estimate of Canada’s national emissions shows higher gas use drove up emissions in 2025. But clean electrification can help steer Canada back toward net zero. https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/early-estimate-canadas-emissions-increased-in-2025/

🔌🏠💰 Today's announcement is a huge step forward to help as many as 820,000 Canadian households benefit from the efficiency and cost savings of an electric heat pump, says Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. #cdnpoli #climateaction

🇰🇷 Case in point: South Korea's new plan injects a massive US$747 billion toward accelerating the country's transition to clean energy and EVs and building a world-leading clean economy. "We must move away from the practice of chasing others and become architects and leaders," says President Lee.

"It's not a question of maintaining a place in the North American auto industry. It's: is Canada going to have an auto industry that survives in the 21st century at all?" says Clean Energy Canada's Joanna Kyriazis. #cdnpoli #EV #energytransition

"Gasoline-only vehicles made up 49% of global new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026, down from 73% in 2021."

🇨🇦⚡️ In this week's Clean Energy Review: Why a pipeline is not just a pipeline, the number of jobs Canada could unlock by electrifying, and Nova Scotia Power’s new grid battery. #cdnpoli

"The government’s huge subsidization of this project lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: Fossil fuels aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost. In fact, the difference is now a trillion-dollar one," writes Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. #cdnpoli

🇨🇦⚡️ New modelling finds that doubling Canada’s electricity supply—done right—could unlock $3 trillion in additional economic activity by 2050, support 1.6 million additional jobs in 2050, and generate about $5 in economy-wide benefits for every dollar invested in the power sector. Learn more👇

🪨💰🔋 Clean Energy Canada, in a recent report, urged Canadian decision-makers to move toward investments, offtake agreements, and joint financing for critical minerals with European partners “while building out more refined and processed value chains at home."

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Volkswagen’s EV demand picks up as Germany backs electrification, solar and wind hit new milestones in Australia and India, and new research puts #EV range and reliability worries to rest. #cdnpoli

🔌 “If you can snap up a cheap golf course, which is nice and flat, gentle slopes, not mountainous, it’s probably cheap land. So it makes a lot of sense," Kyushu University professor Andrew Chapman told Bloomberg. Former golf courses currently host about 9% of Japan’s utility-scale #solar capacity.

🔌✅ Today's EVs—even the lower-range ones—are ready for road trips. On a 365-kilometre route, all 22 models tested never had to stop for a top-up charge. Plus, when an EV does need recharging, one can plug in and head to the bathroom or store—no minutes wasted "just holding a nozzle."

🔋📈 "In Germany, Volkswagen’s home market and the heart of the European auto industry, orders for pure electric cars now exceed those of internal combustion engine vehicles."

🔋 A fully electric Toyota Corolla could be on offer as early as next year, according to Car and Driver. The auto magazine expects it to offer "at least 250 miles of driving range" with a starting price of around US$30,000—though it may not sell in the U.S. at all.

🇬🇧💰🔌🚗 When charged during cheaper off-peak hours, EVs are nine times cheaper to 'fuel' compared to a gas car. But even during peak hours, when electricity is most expensive, they are still three times cheaper. See the full analysis and charts from @carbonbrief.org 📊👇

🔋🔌 In Brooklyn, 10 new electric school buses—two of which draw solar power from their roofs—are now skipping the pump and giving students safer, emissions-free rides. #uspoli #ev

🇩🇪⚡️ Germany has committed to "transitioning away" from fossil fuels by 2045, joining France and the Netherlands as among the first nations to adopt a national roadmap of this kind. #climateaction #energytransition #energysky

🔋✅ Contrary to a common misconception, a new study of used vehicles finds that "EVs were about 25% less likely to fail than petrol models of the same age (based on a failure rate of 16.5% versus 22.1%)." #EVs

☀️🔌📈 "Sunshine and wind met 80.4% of demand on Australia’s main power grid on Saturday, setting a new high bar for renewable electricity... Fossil fuels, coal and gas, contributed 20%." #energytransition #solar

🚗🔋✅ "All 22 vehicles that we put through that circuit made it to that 230-kilometre mark only using about 40% of the available battery on average," says the Canadian Automobile Association's Kaitlynn Furse. #cdnpoli #EV

🇨🇦🇪🇺⛏️ “Critical minerals are really the new oil,” says Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. Our recent report recommends that Canada focus on cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium, nickel, and rare earth elements. #cdnpoli

🍁⚡️💰 Our new white paper outlines the barriers in the way of distributed energy resources deployment in Ontario and the three changes governments and utilities could make to unlock massive savings. Read it here👇 #onpoli

🇨🇦🇪🇺 In this week's Clean Energy Review: Canada and Europe eye a much closer economic alliance, clean energy leaders call on Canada to “double, double, double” by 2050, and clean energy projects continue to grow from Saskatchewan to P.E.I. #cdnpoli

💪🇨🇦 Clean Energy Canada sent a joint letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney today calling for a broader approach in Canada's national electricity strategy. In short, Canada must "double, double, double" electricity supply, electrification, and energy efficiency by 2050 to realize the full benefits.

🔋🇨🇦📈 While electric powertrains accounted for only 1% to 2% of all trucks and buses registered in Canada last year, battery-electric buses were a bright spot, with sales up 188% from 2024. #cdnpoli #ev

🔋🏠 In Australia, grid-connected batteries are rapidly reducing the country's dependence on gas-fired power—and household energy bills as a result. “Batteries have taken the evening peak, and they’re not giving it back."