As heat pumps scale up across Canada, utility leaders from BC Hydro and Hydro-Québec join UCL and Toronto 2030 District to discuss what faster adoption means for the grid and for customers.
“We applaud the federal government’s leadership in making heat pumps and home retrofits more accessible while strengthening support for rental buildings. Building on this momentum, a whole-building approach that explicitly includes older three- and four-storey apartments and condo buildings will help bring these benefits to vulnerable residents.”
Urban Climate Leadership and Climate Caucus announce new national initiative equipping municipal leaders with practical tools to assess data centre proposals and secure stronger federal funding and support mechanisms that enable local decision-making about data centre planning.
Bell’s proposed Saskatchewan AI data centre could quadruple in size, drawing up to 1.2 gigawatts of power. UCL’s Mairin Loewen joined CBC Blue Sky to discuss what the expansion could mean for communities—and the questions to ask about energy, water, land, public costs and local benefits.
