Brendan Haley

@brhaley.bsky.social

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Policy director for an energy-efficient economy with Efficiency Canada. Adjunct professor at Carleton Public Policy - climate, industrial policy & 🇨🇦 political economy. Ex-pat Nova Scotian in Ottawa.

electric heat pump water heater Halloween costume A big cylinder with an energy star logo on it.
Drake from "Hotline Bling" music video turns away to reject the text: Paying gas plants for reliability in a "net-zero" grid. Drake then turns in satisfaction towards the text: Paying people to be energy efficient and to have demand flexibility
energy efficiency program spending in Canada rising to $1.5 billion in 2023
The chart below provides a comparison of space heating bills associated with heating with fuel oil compared to a fully electric system with a cold-climate air-source heat pump (CC-ASHP) in various Canadian cities that are likely to still use fuel oil. The difference in costs is over $4,000 in most of these cities.1 Oil prices have almost doubled in Canada since mid-2020. These figures are an updated calculation of a 2022 report by Natural Resources Canada, replacing August 2020 energy prices with February 2024 prices for an archetypical post-1980 2-storey house.