Competitiveness, Constraints & Coordination: A Strategy For Accelerating Energy Transition Investment In The Great Lakes
The following is the executive summary of a report that summarizes RMI’s Accelerating Clean Regional Economies (ACRE) initiative’s research into the dynamics of clean energy-based economic development across the Great Lakes region. Reposted with permission. The race to compete in the energy transition is on. As new energy technologies rapidly decrease in cost and improve […]
Exploring Offshore Wind Energy Opportunities in the Great Lakes
From High-Paying Jobs to a Cleaner Environment, Great Lakes Wind Energy Could Provide Economic Growth for Millions of Regional Residents and Help States Achieve Renewable Energy Targets The five Great Lakes—Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario—contain 20% of the planet’s freshwater resources. They provide drinking water to more than 40 million people. And they hold […]
Powering a Net-Zero Future for Ontario
Ontario Power Generation and Microsoft collaborate to create a Canada-first strategic partnership to power a net-zero future for Ontario. In September of 2022, OPG and Microsoft announced a Canada-first strategic partnership aimed at tackling climate change and supporting sustainable growth across Ontario. Under this partnership, Microsoft will procure clean energy credits (CECs) sourced from OPG’s […]
Who Wins With Clean Energy? The Benefits Go Beyond Better Health
No smog days. That’s the simple mantra usually invoked by people praising Ontario’s historic energy shift a decade ago, when the last coal-fired electricity plants were shuttered and replaced—almost fully—by clean energy sources. You can literally see and inhale the benefits of the clean electricity grid in the clearer skies and better air to breathe. […]
Business Takes a Leading Role at COP26
“I am hopeful because companies like Dow are not only making commitments to address their own emissions, but are taking a lead role in developing new climate-friendly technology.” – Mary Draves, Dow Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety The United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP26, took place recently […]
Skilling the Workforce and Leading an Equitable Clean Energy Transition
Manufacturing regions have long been looking for a spark to revitalize communities and bring jobs to areas that have lost workers to automation and market transition. In Normal, Illinois, that spark has been found by way of electric vehicle manufacturing. The Great Lakes region is experiencing a renaissance of sorts in high-tech manufacturing that is […]
Sustainable Great Lakes: A Regional Assessment of Sustainability in the Binational Great Lakes Megaregion
For over fifty years, governments around the world, including in Canada, have discussed the importance of sustainability or sustainable development. One of the more prominent undertakings was the Rio Summit in Brazil in 1992, which led to the creation of Agenda 21. Subsequently, the Millennium Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2000, […]
Time to Charge Ahead:
Great Lakes Region Requires Infrastructure to Power EVs
By Tom Van Heeke The automotive industry is undergoing profound changes. For its part, General Motors (GM) is on its way to an all-electric future with a plan to have 30 electric vehicles (EVs) in our global portfolio by the end of 2025 and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from our new light-duty vehicles […]
Powering Forward: Accelerating the Bi-national Great Lakes Region’s Clean Energy Transition Report
The bi-national Great Lakes mega-region, home to 107 million Americans and Canadian and center of the United States-Canada economic partnership, enjoys a multitude of shared sectors and socio-economic strengths, as well as integrated assets such as inter-state and cross-border supply chains, transportation corridors, and energy systems between both countries, that connect, unify, and advantage the […]