Infrastructure Articles

Low- and Middle-Income (LMI) households have historically faced obstacles to becoming more energy efficient, despite the outsized impact efficiency measures would have for this population. Low-income households pay more than 7 percent of their income on energy bills,...

Roughly seven percent of all Canadian households have high energy burdens, meaning they spend more than 10 percent of their annual income on energy costs. These energy burdens weigh especially heavily on visible minority households, including Black, Asian and First...

One of the biggest obstacles to wider adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is range anxiety and “charging deserts,” or disadvantaged areas where public charging stations are not readily available. Currently, there are 5,000 EV charging stations in Canadas. There is no...

Heat pumps are misunderstood by many homeowners – many still believe that they do not adequately heat homes or know very little about them. Heat pumps are more energy efficient, because they move warm air from one space to another instead of generating cold or hot...