WELCOME TO THE ENERGY FUTURES INSTITUTE
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
The Energy Futures Institute is an independent Canadian project exploring some of the greatest challenges facing British Columbia’s energy security, affordability, and independence.
Addressing big questions on how we can meet BC’s growing energy demand while protecting our environment, not just today but for the coming decades and century ahead.
Focusing on facts and solutions.
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
Energy Futures is focused on presenting unbiased, clear, and factual information about our energy landscape and the impacts that different policy options will have on our province.
We believe it's important to be practical and honest about BC’s capacity to meet the long-term needs of residential, commercial, and industrial energy users.
Our goal is to improve public knowledge and literacy about BC’s energy mix while offering constructive solutions to meet the challenges of both today and tomorrow.
We hope to see policymakers at all levels of government acknowledge the need for proactive, long-term planning in order to effectively serve British Columbians for years to come.
Leading the conversation on energy.
Meeting BC's Growing Energy Demand.
Leading the conversation on energy.
Energy Futures has been leading BC's conversations on energy supply, electrification, and infrastructure.
In media, we've been highlighting the need for sound long-term planning, drawing attention to potential shortfalls in our system, and offering ideas on how to ensure our energy system is affordable, efficient, and stable.
Energy Futures Institute’s 10 Recommendations
We are calling for a bold, forward-looking energy strategy that ensures reliable and affordable energy to support economic growth and living standards. It stresses that energy policy considerations should extend beyond climate and electricity, encompassing reliability, resilience, and affordability. We offer the following 10 recommendations that we trust will be given due consideration in these rapidly evolving times.
- Undertake comprehensive cost/benefit analysis and economic impact assessments for all energy and climate policies.
- Promote greater transparency by implementing a real-time public dashboard showing electricity production, use, & imports/exports for British Columbia.
- Add reliability to the legislated energy objectives. By adding electricity reliability to the existing list of statutory priorities — affordability, rate stability, self-sufficiency and environmental sustainability – this important objective has a better chance of not being overlooked.
- In light of rapidly growing power needs, dramatically increase domestic electricity production by considering all available solutions and cancel current plans to decommission existing power generation facilities.
- Support First Nations reconciliation projects with flexible options for participation, and adequate transmission infrastructure & electricity supply.
- Upgrade the electricity grid to address infrastructure gaps.
- Expand natural gas transmission and hydrogen infrastructure to support domestic needs and energy exports.
- Adopt a global perspective on emissions – leverage LNG exports to support global emissions reduction and energy security for allied countries.
- Assert Provincial jurisdiction over energy policy – prevent municipalities from banning natural gas hookups for new construction and commit to not implementing a province-wide gas ban.
- Revisit electric vehicle sales quotas, replace with emission standards.
