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Blog Entries: Energy

Should data centres provide demand flexibility to protect BC's electricity grid? (Jun 8)
Wind power is growing in British Columbia (Jun 5)
The 2026 oil shock may become larger than you think (Apr 30)
Where are BC's LNG exports sailing to? (Mar 27)
Driving electric has become much more beneficial (Mar 17)
Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (15 Mar 2025)
How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 2024)
How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 2024)
British Columbia gets more power (9 Dec 2024)
What will another year of drought conditions mean for electricity supply in BC? (18 May 2024)
British Columbia's evolving electricity trade with the United States (12 May 2024)
The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) will make gasoline more expensive in Vancouver (25 Apr 2024)
The social cost of bitcoin mining in BC (8 Feb 2024)
BC Hydro's new peak load (22 Jan 2024)
BC has become a net electricity importer in 2023 (21 Dec 2023)
Could sodium-ion batteries make grid-scale electricity storage more economical? (23 Sep 2023)
Controversies about Germany's Building Energy Law (9 Sep 2023)
How are sanctions against Russia's crude oil trade developing? (13 Jun 2023)
Optional Time-of-Use electricity tariffs are coming to B.C. (30 May 2023)
BC's electricity load reached a new peak during 2022 (7 Jan 2023)
When are Plug-In Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (PHEV) a good choice? (15 Aug 2022)
Lessons from Germany's transition towards renewable energy (10 Aug 2022)
The commercialization potential of turquoise hydrogen (7 Jul 2022)
The mystery of the diesel premium (20 May 2022)
Fuel tax cuts are popular but badly misguided (11 May 2022)
What does strong backwardation tell us about where crude oil prices are headed? (9 Mar 2022)
Germany turns to LNG imports (1 Mar 2022)
The uncertain future of Nord Stream 2 (28 Dec 2021)
The state of renewable energy adoption around the world (5 Nov 2021)
Electricity generation country profiles (21 Oct 2021)
The GHG footprint of Alberta's oil sands is growing alarmingly (11 Apr 2021)
What role does hydrogen have in the future of electric mobility? (28 Sep 2020)
How much money could be saved by driving electric in Canada? (29 Jul 2020)
British Columbia's Bill 17 drops electricity self-sufficiency (10 Jul 2020)
Poland's dual energy transition (26 Jun 2020)
Electricity demand in BC during the COVID-19 pandemic (18 May 2020)
How much land is needed for wind and solar farms? (30 Apr 2020)
Oil markets in super-contango (22 Apr 2020)
Canada's rising gasoline demand and the need for more e-mobility (2 Feb 2020)
How much more electricity does B.C. use when it gets cold? (31 Jan 2020)
Electricity demand in British Columbia (26 Jan 2020)
Will nuclear fusion power ever become economical? (17 Dec 2019)
Will Saharan solar power come to Europe at last? (30 May 2019)
Refining margins in BC and across Canada (1 May 2019)
Coal on the retreat is good news for climate change (8 Jan 2019)
Bitcoins gobble up too much electricity (7 Dec 2018)
Negative electricity prices (28 Jul 2018)
Does LNG still have a future in BC? (31 Jan 2018)
What happened to the pass-through from crude oil to gasoline prices in Vancouver? (11 Nov 2017)
Canada's changing electricity generation landscape (13 Oct 2017)
Growing our cross-border electricity infrastructure (1 Oct 2017)
How can climate policy succeed without US leadership? (20 Dec 2016)
Electricity conservation tariffs: how do they work? (22 May 2016)
More power to the Lower Mainland (5 Mar 2016)
Canadian Petrodollar Update (22 Feb 2016)
Electricity Economics and Demand Side Management (7 Nov 2015)
The high price of Canada's segmented oil markets (3 Oct 2015)
Energy Economics with Zero Marginal Costs (19 Sep 2015)
Are you paying too much at the pump in Vancouver? (25 Aug 2015)
Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 2015)
Do gasoline prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers? (22 Apr 2015)
How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 2015)
Geothermal energy from hot sedimentary aquifers (15 Jan 2015)
Site C Dam goes ahead (17 Dec 2014)
Nuclear innovation or nuclear stagnation? (14 Dec 2014)
Nuclear environmentalism? (12 Dec 2014)
Liquefied natural gas: resources and upstream issues (21 Nov 2014)
Liquefied natural gas: technology choices and emissions (11 Nov 2014)
Liquefied natural gas: transportation (5 Nov 2014)
Liquefied natural gas: exporters and importers (30 Oct 2014)
Liquefied natural gas: markets and prices (26 Oct 2014)
UBC is letting off steam (22 Oct 2014)
Grid-scale electricity storage with hydrogen (7 Oct 2014)
Can flow batteries solve the electricity storage problem? (28 Sep 2014)
Getting Energy Prices Right (31 Jul 2014)
Electric Common Sense (7 Jun 2014)
What's next for Northern Gateway? (18 Jan 2014)
Northern Gateway approved (19 Dec 2013)

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British Columbia cannot afford lavish tax cuts while battling a severe budget deficit (Nov 1)
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Election cartograms for British Columbia (Oct 4)
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Canada's sovereignty is not for sale (Aug 25)
Should data centres provide demand flexibility to protect BC's electricity grid? (Jun 8)
Wind power is growing in British Columbia (Jun 5)
Canada needs better rail, but not high-speed rail (Jun 2)
How are Canada's electric vehicle imports trending? (May 9)
The 2026 oil shock may become larger than you think (Apr 30)
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Where are BC's LNG exports sailing to? (Mar 27)

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