Canada’s energy transition: Ontario’s new eDSM framework significantly expands electricity demand-side management

James Gaede writes on the Efficiency Canada website about a new electricity demand-side management framework in the province of Ontario. Ontario’s new electricity DSM plan: How does it stack up? On January 7, 2025, Ontario announced a new electricity demand-side management framework (‘eDSM framework’). It includes a total budget of $10.9 billion (roughly $900 … Continue reading Canada’s energy transition: Ontario’s new eDSM framework significantly expands electricity demand-side management →

The lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programmes for spending carbon pricing revenues effectively

Brendan Haley, a Banting post-doctoral fellow at Canada’s Dalhousie University’s School for Resource and Environmental Studies answers an important question in an article on Policy Options website: What are the lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programs for spending carbon pricing revenues and building low-carbon transition organizations? Do you agree with those lessons? Using carbon … Continue reading The lessons from utilities’ energy efficiency programmes for spending carbon pricing revenues effectively →

IEA DSM collaboration programme’s Task 24 Gets Published in Special Issue on ‘Storytelling and Narratives in Energy and Climate Change Research’

IEA Demand Side Management’s Task 24 Operating Agent and friend of EID, Dr Sea Rotmann, helped co-edit a Special Issue on storytelling in the journal Energy Research and Social Sciences (ERSS), together with Drs Mithra Moezzi and Kathryn Janda. This Special Issue, titled ‘Storytelling and narratives in energy and climate change research’ is the largest … Continue reading IEA DSM collaboration programme’s Task 24 Gets Published in Special Issue on ‘Storytelling and Narratives in Energy and Climate Change Research’ →

New agency to deliver demand-side management in Canadian province

It is always encouraging to see how countries, regions or local governments are delivering elements of sustainable energy. The MyToba website reports on legislation in the Canadian province of Manitoba to authorise the creation of a new agency to deliver DSM. This is quite encouraging. Manitoba Announces New Energy Efficiency Crown Corp The Manitoba … Continue reading New agency to deliver demand-side management in Canadian province →