{"id":1536,"date":"2025-06-02T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:07:13","slug":"a-national-grid-should-accelerate-not-stifle-the-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/2025\/a-national-grid-should-accelerate-not-stifle-the-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"A national grid should accelerate \u2013 not stifle \u2013 the energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to Donald Trump\u2019s trade war and annexation threats, Canadians are thirsty for new nation-building projects that can make us less economically reliant on the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One proposal that has been receiving attention is expanding interprovincial electricity transmission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proponents emphasize economic efficiencies from energy trade<\/a>, and the technical benefits of coupling wind and solar production with \u201cnatural batteries<\/a>\u201d in large hydro reservoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking lessons from history, past nation-building infrastructure projects of a similar sort came up short in many ways, notably by failing to develop diversified technology systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better ensure success this time, complementary, regional renewable energy and energy demand innovations must be made a priority. Read Full Article Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brandan Haley, adjunct research professor at Carleton University\u2019s School of Public Policy & Administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Donald Trump\u2019s trade war and annexation threats, Canadians are thirsty for new nation-building projects that can make us less economically reliant on the U.S. One proposal that has been receiving attention is expanding interprovincial electricity transmission. Proponents emphasize economic efficiencies from energy trade, and the technical benefits of coupling wind and solar production with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1540,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sustainable-energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}