The gas isn’t going to Germany. SEFE (Securing Energy for Europe), the German federal government’s energy company, just signed a twenty-year, one-million-tonne-per-year deal to buy LNG from the Ksi Lisims project on the BC north coast, and the plan is to ship those cargoes to Asia, freeing other supplies elsewhere in its system for redirection […]

Last year, the federal government called its electricity plan the Clean Electricity Strategy. In May 2026, it returned as Powering Canada Strong: A National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy. That name change tells the real story. For nearly two decades, Canada has focused on making our relatively flat electricity system cleaner. We succeeded. At […]

There’s a term gaining traction among the people building and financing the digital economy, and it has nothing to do with semiconductors or AI algorithms. It’s called the “electron gap” and it’s meant to convey the widening distance between how much electricity an electrifying world is about to demand and how much we are actually […]

Long before reaching a store shelf or factory floor, most of the things we rely on every day begin their lives far upstream. The phone in your pocket, the clothes you wear, the medicines in your cabinet, the fertilizer that grows food, even the foam and fabrics in the seat beneath you all trace their […]

Every once in a while, you encounter a moment that suggests a genuine inflection point may be underway. That happened to me recently while listening to All In with Chris Hayes on MS NOW, a mainstream political analysis program known for linking daily political developments to broader economic and structural forces. The show devoted a […]

On a small island in the South Pacific, about 6,500 kilometres from the California coast, something quietly extraordinary happened in late 2016. The island of Ta’ū, home to roughly 600 people spread across three villages in American Samoa, had for generations depended on supply ships for nearly everything, including the drums of diesel that kept […]

As Canada’s solar industry accelerates toward net-zero goals, utility-scale developers across the country repeatedly face the same strategic question: Are single-axis trackers worth the added complexity and cost compared to traditional fixed-tilt systems? Canada’s vast geography spans latitudes ranging from about 42°N in the south to well over 60°N in the territories, creating highly seasonal […]

A common narrative in the energy transition is that the grid (power lines, substations, and vast transmission and distribution networks) will ultimately determine how fast we can scale new generation. Policymakers, utilities, and analysts point to massive interconnection queues, chronic congestion, and the need for trillions in new infrastructure as evidence that the system is […]

Given the recent renewed tensions in the Middle East, energy has moved back to the forefront of global conversations. When instability affects major oil and gas producing regions, the impacts are felt quickly and broadly. Prices rise, supply chains tighten, and governments begin reassessing how secure their energy systems really are. But geopolitics is only […]

The power sector is in the middle of the largest investment cycle it has seen in decades. Utilities across North America are preparing to spend hundreds of billions, and potentially more than a trillion dollars, on new infrastructure including transmission lines, substations, power generators, and grid modernization. After years of relatively modest growth, electricity demand […]