Deregulation of Alberta’s electricity sector in the ’90s.
The global financial crisis of the 2000s.
Today, he sees a more daunting transformation ahead, one that surrounds the global energy transition, climate concerns and the role of companies and consumers as Canada seeks to reach “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
“Challenges always look bigger when they’re in the windshield as opposed to in the rear-view mirror, but it is, in my mind, a very challenging prospect,” Kiefer, 62, said in an interview Thursday.
“We will need to change the way we behave, the way we think about energy, the way we use it, in order to accomplish our long-term goals. And change is a difficult thing to enlist on society as a whole.