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Pathways to energy democracy in Canada
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SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Canada is experiencing rapid energy transition, with profound implications for how we live, move and work. Our country is poised to expand renewable energy capacity from 19 gigawatts in 2021 to almost 45 GW in 2025, driven mainly from wind and solar energy projects in western Canada. This transition includes the decarbonization of electricity, electrification of transportation, energy efficient housing and urban design as well as changes in consumer behaviour. Although these sweeping changes in the energy system hold tremendous potential for societal transformation, they also risk underpinning the status quo, retrenching systems of inequality, and exacerbating issues of access and affordability across many parts of the country. there is very limited research in Canada on the possibilities and limits of expanding community-based renewable energy (CRE) projects, and we know even less about how well existing projects are meeting their economic, social and environmental objectives. With these concerns in mind, the proliferation of CRE projects in Canada are at the heart of this proposal. In particular, we explore the possibilities for advancing these types of projects as manifestations of energy democracy and energy justice to meeting the needs of diverse and evolving rural, urban and Indigenous communities.
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- 2022-10-27
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- ©️Parkins, John. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2031.