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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.
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.
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It wasn’t that long ago that TransAlta Corp. was among the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Canada, largely because of its fleet of coal-fired power plants.
Earlier this week, the Calgary-based company announced its intention to be carbon neutral by 2050, joining a growing group of Canadian energy companies on a similar journey.
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As part of its pledge, it will lower company greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by the end of the decade, a sharp drop from 2015 levels.
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What role will clean and renewable energy play in Canada’s goal to be a carbon neutral nation by the year 2050? A panel of experts discussed that question, along with strategies to accelerate the energy transformation, during a webcast hosted by The Globe and Mail on February 23.
The panel included
Mike Andrade, CEO of Toronto-based Morgan Solar Inc.;
Binnu Jeyakumar, director of clean energy with Pembina Institute in Calgary; and