The Energy Mix
Summary
Ontario is one of the many jurisdictions across North America grappling with the urgent need for more affordable housing, devastating and accelerating climate change impacts, and a persistent electricity shortage that seems set to drive carbon emissions higher.
But the province is just beginning to ask a question that some other places have been considering more carefully: what if the first step to delivering on our most immediate needs—affordable homes, safety in the next storm, cooling to get through the next heat wave, a power supply we can count on—is to tackle them together with a single set of common-sense energy choices?
We can hit our net-zero targets if we apply all the tools and technologies in our carbon reduction toolbox, pick the ones that deliver the fastest, best results at lowest cost, and scale them up.That’s where options like mass, deep building retrofits, geoexchange, district energy, microgrids, wastewater energy transfer, community solar farms, and electric vehicle hubs move from interesting concept to practical reality. They’ll need new approaches to financing and project management, and deep collaboration among communities, governments, and businesses.
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