While electrification across all areas of society will be integral, BC Hydro’s CEO said Wednesday that B.C. won’t meet its climate targets through clean power generation alone.
Noting climate change is spurring more extreme and unpredictable weather that’s hitting all of B.C., O’Riley said the goal is to have clean electricity responsible for about a third of all energy use by 2040. That, he said, will take switching from light-duty gas vehicles to electric models, replacing gas furnaces with heat pumps and having industry shift from diesel to alternatives.
Those two sources are expected to dominate the call for power as wind especially has seen a lot of technology and cost improvements in the last decade and a half. Several Greater Victoria communities have enabled the recently implemented zero carbon step code, which gives municipalities the authority to mandate the amount the emissions from new buildings. BC Hydro supports cities taking those strides as O’Riley said it’s much harder to retrofit existing buildings – which account for about 21 per cent of provincial emissions and overwhelmingly use natural gas for space and water heating.
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