Source: Bloomberg Green
In other words, solar increasingly can keep the lights on when the sun goes down, and for the world’s fifth-largest economy no less.
What’s also stunning is how fast battery supply is growing: in 2017, batteries made up 0.1% of the peak summer supply mix, meaning it has grown 60x in the last five years.
That’s a sharp contrast with states like Texas, where extreme heat is forcing state regulators to defer maintenance on gas-fired power plants, putting them at greater risk for failure and putting more methane into the atmosphere.
The battery build-out looks set to continue as the state fills its procurement order for 11.5 GW of clean energy by 2026.
Canada’s Carbon for Cash
Canadians in four provinces received their first checks from Canada’s Climate Action Incentive, the world’s first carbon tax to deliver dividends right to the pockets of its citizens.
The Climate Action Incentive went into force in 2019 and levies a carbon tax penalty on provinces that refuse to institute their own carbon taxes.
In Saskatchewan, a family of four will receive $1,101, while in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta, they will receive $745, $832 and $1,079, respectively.
Not surprisingly, those provinces play host to a number of proposed, existing or under-construction fossil fuel operations that supply jobs and make the prospect of carbon taxes politically unfeasible for local officials.
The current sums from the carbon dividend may seem modest, but they will only go up from here.
The CAI charged oil, gas and coal producers in Canada $10 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2019, and will cap out at $170 per ton in 2030.
This year, the rate came out to $50 per ton, although some of that has been passed onto consumers at the gas pump. The price of gasoline jumped 2.21 cents per litre while diesel increased 2.68 cents per litre.
The Canadian government sounds confident that most citizens will still come out ahead under the scheme. Even if the short-term costs bite, they seem like a worthy down payment toward avoiding the estimated $2.8 trillion of damage that two degrees of warming is estimated to bring to Canada by 2100.
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