Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: BC
- How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 24)
- How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 24)
- British Columbia gets more power (9 Dec 24)
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (16 Sep 24)
- Projecting Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption in British Columbia (27 Aug 24)
- What will another year of drought conditions mean for electricity supply in BC? (18 May 24)
- British Columbia's evolving electricity trade with the United States (12 May 24)
- Will BC need to transition fuel taxes to VKT taxes? (30 Apr 24)
- The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) will make gasoline more expensive in Vancouver (25 Apr 24)
- The social cost of bitcoin mining in BC (8 Feb 24)
- BC Hydro's new peak load (22 Jan 24)
- BC has become a net electricity importer in 2023 (21 Dec 23)
- EV adoption around the world and BC's evolving ZEV laws (13 Oct 23)
- BC has made it easier for stratas to install EV chargers (8 Oct 23)
- Optional Time-of-Use electricity tariffs are coming to B.C. (30 May 23)
- BC's electricity load reached a new peak during 2022 (7 Jan 23)
- The state of public EV charging in British Columbia (16 Aug 21)
- Passenger cars in BC are getting heavier (25 Jul 21)
- Are EVs already cheaper than gas-powered cars? (21 Jul 21)
- The state of EV adoption in British Columbia (21 Apr 21)
- Vaccinating BC's population pyramid (9 Apr 21)
- BC's mail-in vote revealed political biases (9 Nov 20)
- BC's mail-in vote is unlikely to hold any surprises (26 Oct 20)
- British Columbia's Bill 17 drops electricity self-sufficiency (10 Jul 20)
- Electricity demand in BC during the COVID-19 pandemic (18 May 20)
- The cost components of automobile insurance and the bonus-malus system (29 Feb 20)
- Towards care-based automobile insurance in British Columbia (6 Feb 20)
- How much more electricity does B.C. use when it gets cold? (31 Jan 20)
- Electricity demand in British Columbia (26 Jan 20)
- The strong case for public automobile insurance (22 Jan 20)
- Refining margins in BC and across Canada (1 May 19)
- Bitcoins gobble up too much electricity (7 Dec 18)
- BC needs a “right to charge” (27 Nov 18)
- Does LNG still have a future in BC? (31 Jan 18)
- How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 17)
- What does voter participation tell us about the outcome of the British Columbia 2017 provincial election? (11 May 17)
- Electricity conservation tariffs: how do they work? (22 May 16)
- More power to the Lower Mainland (5 Mar 16)
- Vancouver House Price Dynamics (23 Jan 16)
- Are you paying too much at the pump in Vancouver? (25 Aug 15)
- Drought and water conservation in Vancouver (21 Jul 15)
- Is BC's carbon tax salient? (15 Jun 15)
- How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 15)
- Metro Vancouver needs more public transit (16 Mar 15)
- Coal mining and selenium (7 Feb 15)
- Alphabetical ballot order in Vancouver politics (19 Dec 14)
- Site C Dam goes ahead (17 Dec 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: resources and upstream issues (21 Nov 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: technology choices and emissions (11 Nov 14)
- Clean energy and the Site C Dam (16 Oct 14)
- What's next for Northern Gateway? (18 Jan 14)
Recent Blog Entries
- Canada Post is in a death spiral (May 21)
- The transportation emission equation (May 10)
- Canada's notwithstanding clause is ripe for misuse (April 21)
- China could come out ahead in a trade war with Trump's America (April 17)
- Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (March 15)
- Value-added taxes are not tariffs (March 4)
- A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (March 2)
- Trade deficits are not subsidies (February 27)
- Electric vehicle adoption in Germany (February 19)
- Export surcharges as effective retaliation in a trade war (January 20)
- How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 24)
- How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 24)
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