Small scale micro-power and heating technologies that use renewable energy sources can help reduce greenhouse gas and local air emissions. Using these solar, wind and earth energy technologies can also strengthen Canada's energy networks and reduce transmission losses.

This report looks at how much residential and farm based energy solar water heating, ground source heat pumps, solar photovoltaic power systems and small wind turbines could provide from region to region across Canada. The report also reviews current and future costs of these technologies, and the types of economic policies that could be used by federal and provincial governments to establish markets for these technologies and exploit their full potential.

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This report explores significant opportunities for Ontario farmers to benefit from investments in renewable energy on their farms.

Written in collaboration with the Pembina Institute, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, the United Church of Canada and Climate Action Network Canada, the report makes a trans-Atlantic comparison between Germany and Ontario, examining ways in which Ontario farmers could benefit from Ontario clean energy policies and incentives.

There’s a common misconception that increasing the supply of renewable energy to the electricity grid drives up power costs in Alberta.

In fact, clean energy is lowering Albertans’ electricity costs. As this fact sheet explains, both solar and wind energy are subsidizing our electricity rates in different ways. Understanding why that happens requires a closer look at how the electricity market works.

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