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The Future of building heat and the natural gas network in a net zero Canada

The Canadian Climate Institute (CCI) mitigation team selected ESMIA to perform modelling as part of a project to provide policy guidance to accelerate the decarbonization of heating in Canada’s buildings and avoid costly dead-end pathways. A central thrust of the project was modelling technological pathways to attain decarbonization goals and understand the economic viability of […]

Modelling hydrogen’s potential across multiple sectors of the Canadian economy and Biennial Hydrogen Strategy Report for Canada

NRCan’s 2021 Hydrogen Strategy aimed to develop a strategy that will set Canada on the path to meet net-zero 2050 climate goals and position Canada as a world-leading producer, user, and exporter of clean hydrogen, and associated technologies. NRCan is required to provide a progress report for the Hydrogen Strategy every two years, and to […]

Optimal role for harvested wood products in net-zero pathways for Canada with biogenic carbon accounting

The objective of this project was to enhance the modelling that quantifies the contribution of forests to achieving Canada’s climate targets and economic development by optimizing the representation of harvested wood products (HWPs). This enhanced energy system modelling initiative required a very rigorous representation of provincial and territorial forest industries as sources of bioenergy, feedstock […]

Building an online Pathways Explorer for a large variety of net-zero scenarios for Canada

ESMIA and IET have a long collaboration history for the development of Canadian Energy Outlooks and energy transition scenarios, including net-zero scenarios. Using the most technology-rich energy model in Canada (NATEM), these publications provide unique insights and guidelines to decision-makers from companies and governmental agencies regarding cost-effective policies and strategies to meet ambitious climate goals. […]

Modelling the impacts of the federal Liberal Party’s climate plan and estimating the gap to achieving Canada’s 2050 net-zero target

The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) made major climate policy announcements culminating in their 2021 federal election climate platform. The policies were modelled in NATEM—including carbon pricing, a clean electricity standard, large investments in industrial decarbonization, subsidies to low carbon vehicles and heating devices, and many others—as an attempt to meet a 2030 climate target […]

PARIS REINFORCE – Building a low-carbon and climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement

ESMIA was responsible for case studies in Canada, the United States, and Mexico using its NATEM optimization model for PARIS REINFORCE – a large-scale innovation project with 6.5 million Euros funding from the European Commission and involving 18 modelling teams worldwide. The goal of this project was to underpin climate policymaking with authoritative scientific methods […]

Optimal GHG reduction trajectories for Quebec – Horizon 2030 and 2050 (Update 2021)

More than an update of the first publication published in 2019, this new study Trajectoires carried out for the Government of Quebec is the result of an in-depth modelling exercise aimed at defining decarbonization pathways for the Quebec economy reaching the carbon neutrality by 2050. Using ESMIA economy-wide GHG optimization NATEM model, it provided all […]