A National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy
The Government of Canada has released Powering Canada Strong: A National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy, setting out how the country can double its electricity supply by 2050, accelerate electrification, and strengthen energy security. The strategy organizes federal–provincial–territorial collaboration across eight work streams, from building the grid and financing the deployment to securing the North.
One of these work streams is increasing regional integration. The strategy notes that Canada’s provincial grids remain largely separate — trading more with the United States than with each other — and points to data sharing, regional grid modelling, and coordinated planning as means to identify priority interties and support their advancement.
EMH and its national community of modelling teams are developing tools and approaches relevant to this work. Through open-source tools such as SILVER for network optimization and PRAS for resource adequacy, and a platform built for multi-model comparison, EMH supports analysis of interprovincial transmission corridors and the trade-offs between reliability, affordability, and emissions that grid planning involves. Learn more about our open-source tools on our M3 Platform webpage.
