Energy Council of Canada
Francis Bradley is the CEO of Electricity Canada.
Held in Ottawa by the Energy Council of Canada, Canada Energy Update 2024 brings together leaders from Canada's major national energy industry associations to provide a high-level review and forecast. Enjoy these excerpted remarks by Electricity Canada CEO Francis Bradley.
In Canada, we're fortunate to have one of the cleanest electricity systems in the world. It's eighty-four percent non-emitting, mostly hydro. We're on track to phase out coal by 2030. That's the good news.
The bad news is eighty-four percent is an average, and that hides important information. Regionally, some places in the country still rely extensively on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Complicating matters, we don't have just one electricity system in Canada.
Each province and territory are different, with different types of ownership. Ground-operated, privately run hybrids between those two in some jurisdictions, and a lot of remote communities are not connected to the grid. Take the system with the issues we have and getting to net-zero as an electricity sector by 2035 or even a net-zero economy by 2050 is going to be challenging.