The Canadian Energy Outlook project describes and analyzes the transformations required to energy services in order to meet net-zero objectives in Canada, where these services are strongly associated with quality of life and standards of living, from transportation of people and goods, to heating and cooling buildings.   The first report of this 3rd edition of...

As part of the decarbonization of electricity, targeted for 2035, this white paper paints a picture of the situation in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. If each province has its own issues to deal with, the report underlines a significant number of common issues that could benefit...

The Government of Canada must submit its 2030 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Plan by the end of March 2022. Since Canada has missed all of its climate targets to date, the IET has elected to support the development of this plan by publishing a set of proposals detailed on a sectorial basis. In October 2021,...

Download report Are Canada's announced and deployed efforts to achieve 2030 climate goals sufficient and consistent? In the report On the way to net-zero: The 2030 milestone, Polytechnique Montréal's Institut de l’énergie Trottier (IET) points out that there is nothing less certain than the possibility of achieving Canada's GHG reduction emissions, based on the information...

Go to report The Institut de l’énergie Trottier at Polytechnique Montréal, in partnership with e3c Hub–HEC Montréal and the firm ESMIA, has published Canadian Energy Outlook 2021: Horizon 2060. The report, now in its second edition, forecasts trends in Canadian energy production and consumption along with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To better gauge the impacts...

Go to report Simulation of the e-highway technology This simulation, sponsored by the Energy Modelling Initiative, is the first step in a study proposal developed by the Chair in Energy Sector Management (HEC Montréal), CPCS and the Institut de l’énergie Trottier (Polytechnique Montréal) in collaboration with government, university and private partners, to compare the costs and...

Click here for more info about the Energy Modelling Initiative. Following a mandate from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the Institut de l’énergie Trottier at Polytechnique Montréal (IET) has structured and implemented an Energy Modeling Initiative (EMI). This mandate ended on March 31, 2020, culminating in the publication of a final report on the proposal to establish...

Go to the article The value of electricity market integration and hydropower This article was published in the March 2021 edition of the journal Energy Policy by the authors Jesús A. Rodríguez-Sarasty, Sebastien Debia and Pierre-Olivier Pineau of the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal, thanks to the financial support of the Institut de l’énergie Trottier...

Northeast USA-Canada Decarbonization Opportunities and Challenges of Regional Electricity Section Integration for High Renewable Penetration This study was produced by the Chair in Energy Sector Management of HEC Montréal, for the Northeast Electrification and Decarbonization Alliance, with the suppport of the Trottier Family Foundation, the Institut de l’énergie Trottier and the Transition Accelerator. Deeper regional integration...