As Canada looks to move its power grid toward net-zero with new federal regulations, the vast majority of the country already gets its electricity from emissions-free sources.
In 2020, 84 per cent of the country’s electricity came from these sources — mostly hydro, along with smaller amounts of nuclear, wind and solar.
Alberta is unlike most of the rest of the country, however.
While renewable power generation has roughly doubled in the past seven years — and the province now gets more electricity from wind and solar than it does from coal — those green sources of power only amounted for 13 per cent of total generation
