LAPSE:2023.35034
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LAPSE:2023.35034
Actualization and Adoption of Renewable Energy Usage in Remote Communities in Canada by 2050: A Review
Obiora S. Agu, Lope G. Tabil, Edmund Mupondwa
April 28, 2023
Remote community initiatives for renewable energy are rapidly emerging across Canada but with varying numbers, success rates, and strategies. To meet low-carbon transition goals, the need to coordinate technology deployment and long-term policy to guide the adoption is critical. Renewable resources such as wind, solar, hydro, and biomass can provide energy at a subsidized cost, create sustainable infrastructure, and provide new economic viability in social value integration. The renewable energy transition is crucial to Canada in sustaining remote and indigenous communities by providing local, clean, and low-carbon-emission energy for heat, power, and possibly transportation. This paper identified 635 renewable resources projects deployed to improve and increase electricity supply. To an extent, balancing demand within the remote and indigenous communities of Canada and highlighting sustainable renewable energy development through ownership participation within the communities is achievable before 2050 and beyond through energy efficiency and the social value of energy. The article identifies clean energy targets as mandated by the different provinces in Canada to reach net-zero GHG emissions.
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renewable energy transition, social value energy, socio-technical transition, sustainable development
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Agu OS, Tabil LG, Mupondwa E. Actualization and Adoption of Renewable Energy Usage in Remote Communities in Canada by 2050: A Review. (2023). LAPSE:2023.35034
Author Affiliations
Agu OS: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada [ORCID]
Tabil LG: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada [ORCID]
Mupondwa E: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A9, Canada; Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Government of Canada, 107 Science Place, Saskatoon,
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Energies
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16
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8
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3601
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2023
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2023-04-21
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1996-1073
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