Green power could generate 150 TWh by 2025 in Canada
TORONTO, Ontario, CA, 2004-11-17 Refocus Weekly
Canada could install 41,400 MW of green power capacity by 2025, or 150TWh which is half of the country’s electricity generation, according to the environmental group Pollution Probe.
Onshore wind would provide 21,000 MW and 55 TWh of electricity, with another
3,400 MW and 12 TWh of offshore wind, says the group’s report, ‘Green Power
Vision & Strategy.’ Small hydro would contribute 10,000 MW and 44 TWh,
biomass would be 4,500 MW and 32 TWh, solar would be 1,000 MW capacity and 1 TWh
output, geothermal at 500 MW and 4 TWh, while wave and tidal would each
contribute 500 MW and 1 TWh output a year.
The target for 2010 would be 45 to 60 TWh, rising to 90 TWh by 2015, 120 TWh by
2020 and finally 150 TWh of green power by 2025.
“To develop green power to its full potential in Canada, concerted action will
be required on several fronts,” it explains, and identifies three priority
areas for action and seven complementary areas to remove barriers to development
and deployment. A long-term strategy is needed to accelerate development of
green power, and a vision “must be shared among all jurisdictions and have
broad stakeholder and public support.” It calls for strategies with targets
and timelines, adding that “green power is not a niche market; it can become a
significant source of clean electricity across Canada.”
By moving “aggressively” on green power development now, “Canada can
become a full participant in the growing world market for cleaner energy
technologies; green power is essential to Canada’s long-term response to the
challenge of climate change,” it concludes. “It also reduces smog and other
forms of pollution that are linked to respiratory problems, hospitalizations and
deaths.”
The document is the result of five workshops held across the country by
Pollution Probe and Summerhill Group in the past year, to assess the potential
for green power sources. The meetings engaged 300 officials from Canada and from
other countries involved in development of renewables.
“Green Power is not a niche market; it can become a significant source of
clean electricity across Canada,” it adds. “Green power is essential to
Canada’s long-term response to the challenge of climate change. It also
reduces smog and other forms of pollution that are linked to respiratory
problems, hospitalizations and deaths.”
The document does not address the potential for green heat facilities.
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