Can Contracts for Difference Keep Canada Competitive?

On Season 4 Episode 8 of Energy vs Climate. David, Sara,  Ed, and special guest Dr. Chris Bataille, Adjunct Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) and researcher with the Institut du Développement Durable et de Relations Internationales (IDDRI.org), discuss contracts for difference policy and and how can it help industrial decarbonization.

 EPISODE NOTES:
Dr. Chris Bataille, Adjunct Research Fellow at Columbia University Centre on Global Energy Policy.

@1:12 EvC season 4, Ep. 3: Inflation Reduction Act and impacts to Canada

@4:20 Contract for Difference (CfD) – Explained

@5:50 CfD in Alberta’s electricity market, supporting renewables deployment by Sara Hastings-Simon

@6:52 CfD example in the UK electricity market, supporting renewables deployment

@10:22 The Climate Policy Certainty Gap and How to Fill It, by UCalgary School of Public Policy Dale Beugin and Blake Shaffer

@13:16 Canada’s pancake stack of sticks and carrots: Output based pricing system, the Clean Fuel Standard, methane regs, oil and gas emissions cap, CCUS tax credit, Emissions Reduction Fund, and Clean Growth Program

@15:05 Canada vehicle emissions regulations on par with California

@15:45 EvC Season 3, Ep. 32: Rebecca Dell, ClimateWorks Foundation, on Decarbonizing cement

@19:42 Canadian subsidies can compete with the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act

@29:28 EvC S

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