On June 8th, the Atlantic Electricity Cooperation Initiative (AECI) launched in Charlottetown, PEI. The initiative brings together governments, utilities, regulators, and Indigenous communities across the four Atlantic provinces to work on a question that has long been handled province-by-province: how should Atlantic Canada plan and coordinate its electricity system as a region?
The AECI is funded by the Transition Accelerator and led by Executive Director Andy MacCallum. Alongside the regional coordination work, the AECI is supporting expansion of the open-source Atlantic Canada Energy System (ACES) model in collaboration with Net Zero Atlantic — giving stakeholders a shared analytical foundation for exploring long-term electricity planning scenarios.
Funded by the Transition Accelerator and led by Executive Director Andy MacCallum, the AECI’s mission is to build credible, coordinated regional planning across the four Atlantic provinces — moving from fragmented, province-by-province approaches toward a unified system that can unlock greater affordability, reliability, and clean energy investment. A key part of that work is rigorous shared analysis: the AECI is supporting expansion of the open-source Atlantic Canada Energy System (ACES) model in collaboration with Net Zero Atlantic, giving governments and stakeholders a transparent tool for long-term electricity planning scenarios.
As a national network of energy modellers, researchers, and policymakers, the Energy Modelling Hub was glad to be at the launch and looks forward to continued collaboration with the AECI, the Transition Accelerator, and Net Zero Atlantic. Regional questions like this one are exactly where shared, rigorous analysis matters most.
Learn more at atlanticelectricity.ca.
