🚒⚡️ Salisbury, N.B. has won a national sustainability award for its new net-zero ready fire station. The 15,000 sq. ft. facility was designed to support a growing community while reducing long-term energy costs through energy-efficient design, renewable energy features, and a planned solar array.

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Our new report shows a smarter way to build, global EV sales hit a new high, and solar and wind generate more electricity than gas for the first time globally. #cdnpoli #energytransition #climateaction

"Together, wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity in April, compared with 20% from gas." #energytransition #energysky

⚡️💰 "Several analyses—including from BC Hydro, BC Housing and Clean Energy Canada—say installing electric heating systems like heat pumps in new buildings typically costs the same or less than using gas," writes @maxfawcett.bsky.social. #bcpoli

🇨🇦NEW REPORT: As Canada builds new housing and public infrastructure, a new set of Clean Energy Canada case studies finds that we can do so without locking in huge amounts of emissions by using lower-carbon, made-in-Canada materials. Learn more👇

🇨🇦 A new renter-dedicated heat pump program from @hydroquebec.com will help up to 120,000 low-income renter households afford the switch to heat pumps, cutting electricity bills by 20%—around $250 a year—while bringing cooling to homes that currently don’t have it. #cdnpoli #qcpoli #climateaction

🌡️📈 Because climate policies are working and renewable energy is scaling fast, scientists have revised down the world’s most widely used worst-case warming scenario, from 5C to 3.5C, saying the old trajectory has “become implausible.” #energytransition #climateaction

BC Hydro's new energy efficiency strategy makes meaningful investments in energy conservation, but "falls short of fully harnessing the opportunities that household technologies have to save families—and BC Hydro—money," says @evanpivnick.bsky.social. Read our full response👇 #bcpoli

🇨🇦 Canada’s push for middle powers to align must be grounded in the future—and an open, plurilateral clean trade pact on steel and aluminum is "the perfect place to start," writes our @racheldoran.bsky.social and Ollie Sheldrick, alongside the Center for American Progress's Ryan Mulholland. #cdnpoli

🇨🇦📈 "There was a lot of pent up demand," says Clean Energy Canada's @joannakyriazis.bsky.social. #cdnpoli

🔌🚗📈 In this week's Clean Energy Review: How the federal government undermined its new electricity strategy just a day after its release, some phenomenal EV sales numbers, and why Vancouver is trying to increase natural gas use. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #energy

🇨🇦"The long-awaited agreement between the federal government and Alberta was promised to strengthen Canada’s competitiveness and the effectiveness of key climate policies—but is, in reality, a step backward," says @racheldoran.bsky.social. Our full response👇 #cdnpoli #abpoli

🍁 Canada's electricity grid buildout is "an economic opportunity in its own right," says @evanpivnick.bsky.social. "Underpinning this goal are the wires, components, and technologies that a modern electricity system requires—supply chains that Canada’s manufacturing sector could feed into."

📈 New Canadian EV sales data is out, and as expected, they're up—and by a lot. “The anecdotal evidence that Canadians were increasingly looking to go electric was strong, but today’s numbers are unmistakable," says Clean Energy Canada's @joannakyriazis.bsky.social. Our full response👇 #cdnpoli #EV

⚡️While today's national electricity strategy highlights the strengths of Canada’s existing system, it "overstates the role of natural gas and understates the long-term energy security and affordability benefits of clean energy," says @evanpivnick.bsky.social. Response👇 #cdnpoli

🍁☀️🔌 New Brunswick has announced its largest solar farm yet—potentially the second largest in Canada—with enough power for 12,500 homes. The farmers hosting the project plan to continue using the land for “sheep grazing, blueberry cultivation and honey production” alongside power generation.

📈 EV inquiries have jumped in online car marketplaces across Europe, especially those costing less than €30,000, according to @bloomberg.com. "What the Iran war is doing is creating a focus on affordability," says one car expert. #energytransition #EV

🇨🇦🔌 In this week's Clean Energy Review: The policies ‘Canada Strong’ can’t happen without, Canada welcomes the first signs of a more affordable EV market, and an Arctic community in Quebec successfully swaps diesel for clean energy. #cdnpoli #energytransition

🇨🇦⚡️📉 Canada’s EV market may be turning a corner on its biggest barrier: cost. New data from J.D. Power shows the average EV now sells for $49,500, the same as the average vehicle, regardless of powertrain. #cdnpoli #EV

⛽️📈 With gas prices reaching $2.30 a litre in B.C., drivers are "really thinking" about switching to an electric or otherwise more fuel-efficient car, says New Car Dealers Association of B.C. president Blair Qualey. #bcpoli #energytransition #EV

"If the industrial pricing system was tightened... the average oil and gas company would pay about $0.50 on the barrel... This is pretty small potatoes." And companies only pay this if they do not reduce on-site emissions, says Pembina's Janetta McKenzie.

"If you factor the total cost of ownership of an EV versus a regular gas car... Clean Energy Canada just came out with some stats where (savings reach) around the $30,000 mark," says EV Society's Devin Arthur. #onpoli #ontario #cdnpoli

☀️🔋📉 Around-the-clock electricity from renewables is getting even more cost-competitive, according to @irena-official.bsky.social. Solar-plus-batteries in sunnier regions costs just $55-$82 per megawatt hour, compared with $70-85 for new coal in China and $100 for new gas generation globally.

❄️🔌 "The constant hum of a diesel-powered generator, which not long ago characterized the community’s energy production, has finally faded into silence." A run-of-the-river hydro system now powers most of chilly Inukjuak, Nunavik, cutting fossil fuel reliance and pollution.

🇨🇦⚡️💨 NEW JOINT LETTER: Clean Energy Canada has signed onto a joint letter to the prime minister, alongside @pembina.org and other experts, warning that an unfinalized Alberta–federal MOU risks a “consequential miscalculation” at a critical moment in the global energy transition. Learn more👇

The $ gap between EVs and gas vehicles keeps widening. @cleanenergycanada.org’s latest analysis shows Canadian households can save hundreds of dollars every month by going electric. 💰 📊 Data from @cleanenergycanada.org buff.ly/BO3U68D

⛽️ Gas prices are soaring. Again. 🚨 Still think EVs are too expensive? Watch this. The savings are bigger than you think. 👇 youtu.be/nqOL3wKbPpQ?... Our conversation with @cleanenergycanada.org on this week's The AmberMac Show podcast. cc @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Our reaction to the Spring Economic Update, why 1 in 5 Canadians are now more likely to buy an EV, and countries gather to move beyond fossil fuels. #cdnpoli

"The market is changing really fast... What's available on the #EV market today might surprise people (with their ranges and lowered price points)," says Clean Energy Canada's @racheldoran.bsky.social👇

☀️🔌 Despite Trump, the U.S. recently generated more power from renewables than gas for the first full month ever. “They cannot change the trajectory. They can try and delay it. But the battle for the generation of electricity is over," says one investment expert. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🇨🇦🔌⚙️ “If Canada wants to have an auto sector in the future, let alone a competitive one, we need to be able to produce high-quality affordable EVs and the parts and materials that go into them,” says Clean Energy Canada's @racheldoran.bsky.social. #cdnpoli #EV #energytransition

☀️🔌🌿 Near Nashville, a pilot solar farm is doing double duty, generating low-cost, clean power while shading a small herd of grazing cattle. "We know (agrivoltaics work). But you need to prove it to other people,” says the solar ranch's chief technology officer. #energytransition #solarpower

⚡️ "An ideal confluence of factors is aligning for businesses that rely on electric vehicles. As gas prices continue to spiral north of $2 per litre, consumer confidence in EVs is at a multi-year high. Vehicle prices are down and sales are up," writes @bivnews.bsky.social. #bcpoli #EV

🇨🇦🚙 "The past month has really shown why EVs are the future. But to not get left behind, Canada still needs an approach with robust regulation to provide the roadmap for this journey," writes @racheldoran.bsky.social. New op-ed 👇 #cdnpoli #EV

🇨🇦🚙⚡️ NEW POLL: One in five Canadians (21%) say that recent events—specifically, the return of the federal EV rebate and the war in Iran driving up gas prices—have made them more inclined to get an EV than previously. #cdnpoli #EV

While today's economic update reiterates recent affordability measures offering short-term relief, helping more Canadians switch to clean technologies is, in many cases, the "real solution," says @racheldoran.bsky.social. Our full response👇 #cdnpoli

⚡️⚡️ EV drivers in Manitoba now have a new corridor of fast chargers connecting the capital and the North, with many stations located in First Nations communities along the route. #mbpoli #Indigenous #ev

In this week's Clean Energy Review: Two new reports show the energy transition entering a phase of structural change, how Ontario can save billions in local grid costs, and two very different climate outcomes the Canada-Alberta MOU could unlock. #cdnpoli #energytransition #greensky

“For Canadian drivers looking to save $2,000-$3,000 per year or more, now is a great time to buy an EV,” says @joannakyriazis.bsky.social. #cdnpoli

EV ownership just got even cheaper. In the last few weeks alone, savings jumped $10K+, catalyzed by war-driven gas prices and the return of the federal electric vehicle rebate. Over ten years, EV owners can save up to $34,000 compared to gas. Data from @cleanenergycanada.org⚡🚗 #cdnpoli

🏡🚙🔋 Used intelligently, solutions like batteries, EV chargers, and smart thermostats could help Ontario ratepayers save “between $1.8 and $3.5 billion over the next 20 years,” says Clean Energy Canada's Catherine Jeffery. TVO covers our latest report👇 #onpoli

🇨🇦💰 "This is the third global oil shock in the past decade... Meanwhile, charging an #EV can cost as little as (the equivalent of) about 40 cents per litre for gas," write Clean Energy Canada's @racheldoran.bsky.social and Sicellia Tsui. New op-ed in @nationalobserver.com👇 #cdnpoli

🇨🇦🔌 In March, for the first time in general manager Peter Heppner's career, his Langley-based dealership sold more EVs than non-EVs. "Nobody wants to pay for gas," he says. #bcpoli #energytransition

NEW: ⚡️📈 Ontario's electricity demand is rising, and distributed energy resources (DERs) are a major cost-saving opportunity. Our new report, conducted by Brattle Group, finds that scaling them across the province could reduce distribution capital expenditures by 5% to 11% over the next 20 years.

🌍💚 Happy #EarthDay2026. Thanks for being part of the conversation with us in Canada as we work toward a cleaner, more affordable energy future.

Our latest analysis shows that the emissions implications of the Canada–Alberta MOU will depend primarily on one key factor: how the industrial carbon market is updated. https://440megatonnes.ca/insight/canada-alberta-mou-treatment-industrial-carbon-pricing-emissions-outcome/

🇨🇦💸 Canada's recent fuel tax cut is "an understandable move by government" but risks distracting from the true solution for long-term energy affordability, says Clean Energy Canada's @racheldoran.bsky.social. Full story in @thetyee.ca👇 #cdnpoli

🚙🪫🔋 CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has unveiled a new battery that rivals gas station fill-up times—capable of charging from 10% to 80% in just 3 minutes and 44 seconds. It also reportedly retains “over 90% of its original health after 1,000 ultra-fast charging cycles.” #EV

☀️🔌📈 A new @ember-energy.org report finds that wind and solar growth is now—for the first time driven by a “structural shift,” not a one-off event or crisis—pushing down fossil fuel generation. Record solar generation was “key,” alone meeting 75% of global electricity demand growth in 2025.

☀️🌏📈 Solar was the largest source of primary energy supply in 2025, marking a historic first for renewables, according to a new @iea.org report. #energytransition