Clean Energy Canada

10/14/2026

🔌💰📈 Electricians are "absolutely essential" for the energy transition, yet they will be in short supply—a gap colleges and organizations are working close by busting myths about trades, including the misconception that they don't pay well.

"In fact, the EHRC says the average hourly wage in the utilities sector was $55.43, working out to $115,000 a year, for a full-time worker, well above the Canadian average."

Full story in CBC:
https://bit.ly/4yRJS82

10/13/2026

With Thanksgiving behind us, fall is officially in full swing, meaning now could be the perfect time to upgrade to a heat pump. And thanks to a newly announced $2 billion National Heat Pump Rebate Program from the federal government, buying one is about to get cheaper.

Installing a heat pump just got cheaper, a tale of two EV markets, and natural gas nudges Canada’s emissions into the red

10/09/2026

📈 Canadian interest in EVs is going up, with 48% now leaning toward an EV for their next vehicle, according to our new poll.

Plus, more than twice as many Canadians would prefer a European-influenced vehicle market over a U.S. one

10/09/2026

🔌🏠 Have you considered installing a heat pump to heat and cool your home?

In this interview, Clean Energy Canada's Jana Elbrecht shares details about the new federal heat pump rebate, heat pump savings, and Canadian heat pump owner satisfaction.

Heat pump rebates are back. Will Canada turn renewed support into l...

10/08/2026

🇨🇦🏠💰 Canadians will soon have access to a new federal heat pump rebate of up to $10,000, with approvals confirmed within 24 hours once the program launches.

10/08/2026

💰⚡️ South Korea's energy transition just got a multibillion-dollar boost.

The country's sweeping 10-year Korea-Green Transformation plan leans into clean energy, EVs, and clean materials to strengthen its economy and global competitiveness.

It targets major renewable energy growth by 2030, a 70% EV sales share by 2035, and faster decarbonization across heavy industry.

"We must move away ​from the practice of chasing others and become architects and leaders of the green market ourselves," says President Lee Jae Myung.
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Read the full story in Reuters: https://bit.ly/4hONHDy

10/07/2026

🔋💰 Harbinger, the company manufacturing the trucks, expects each Class 5 and 6 box truck to save FedEx US$20,000 a year in fuel costs, adding up to US$800 million across the 2,000 trucks ordered.

Not only is this just good business for fleet operators—the return on investment is 166%—but the move will also reduce emissions by more than 1.7 million tonnes over the trucks' lifetimes.

Read the full story in Electrek: https://electrek.co/2026/10/03/fedex-believes-300m-electric-truck-spend-will-save-them-800m-in-diesel/

10/05/2026

🔋📈 Fuel prices are turning car buyers to electric options instead, according to new data from Mobility Global.

Gas-only cars, for the first time on record, made up less than half of new cars sold globally over the first half of this year. This is compared to owning 73% of the market in H1 2021—just five years ago.

Compared to last year, sales of new gas-only cars are down 10%, while that for fully battery-electric cars and conventional hybrids are up 12% and 10%.

BEVs now make up 17% of the global market.
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Full story: https://electrek.co/2026/10/05/gas-cars-fall-below-50-percent-global-new-car-sales/

10/05/2026

Asian markets—the intended customers of oil flowing through the new pipeline—have been paying arm and leg for their fossil-fuel dependence, and many have begun to “turbocharge” their energy transition as a result.

Why a pipeline is not just a pipeline, the number of jobs Canada could unlock by electrifying, and Nova Scotia Power’s new grid battery

10/02/2026

🇨🇦🛢️💰 "The government’s huge subsidization of this project lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: Fossil fuels aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost. In fact, the difference is now a trillion-dollar one," writes Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran.

Read our new op-ed in the Globe and Mail👇

Clean Energy Canada argues that the government’s huge subsidization of this project – up to 90 per cent of a $40-billion pipeline with ownership split evenly between Ottawa and Edmonton – lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: Fossil fuels aren’t just losing to clean energy....