{"id":45185,"date":"2026-05-14T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/45185\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:45:06","slug":"ottawa-begins-consultations-on-strategy-to-double-canadas-grid-capacity-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/45185\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa begins consultations on strategy to double Canada\u2019s grid capacity by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A worker walks past rows of power lines in Mississauga, Ont.Nathan Denette\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The federal government announced Thursday it has begun consultations with provincial and territorial governments, utilities, unions and Indigenous Peoples to develop a national strategy to double the size of Canada\u2019s power grid.<\/p>\n

Although dubbed a \u201cnational electricity strategy,\u201d the announcement largely reiterated longstanding federal priorities such as increasing interties between provincial electricity grids, accelerating regulatory approvals for large projects and supporting nuclear power projects. <\/p>\n

The government also said it wants to strengthen domestic manufacturing of components such as transformers and wind turbine towers, and address labour shortages in the electricity sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In-depth: Will soaring electricity rates kill Ontario\u2019s nuclear expansion?<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking in Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a> said Canada would achieve the proposed doubling of power generation by 2050 through \u201cmassive investment\u201d and borrowing \u201cusing our AAA balance sheet.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cGet it wrong, and Canadians will pay higher utility bills,\u201d Mr. Carney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe too timid, and Canadians will end up short of power \u2013 losing good jobs and growing reliant on foreign suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the government, electricity accounts for about one-fifth of all energy use in Canada today. Most of the country\u2019s emissions come from other energy sources; federal officials said much of that consumption could be switched to electricity, reducing the country\u2019s overall greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: A worker walks past rows of power lines in Mississauga, Ont.Nathan Denette\/The Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[164,224,238,214,212,239,17,211,230,231,227,213,210,235,171,234,143,222,249,215,216,229,225,226,219,240,220,244,245,247,242,246,94,243,217,142,233,113,232,241,223,236,237,228,221,218,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-45185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-technology","50":"tag-travel","51":"tag-trudeau","52":"tag-us-news","53":"tag-world-news","54":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}