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For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free

www.theglobeandmail.com For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free

Phasing out coal in Alberta was supported by good policy design driven by carbon pricing and regulations with clear targets that offered necessary certainty to the industry and stakeholders

For the first time in more than 150 years, Alberta’s electricity is coal free

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Coal accounted for 80 per cent of Alberta’s electricity grid in the early 2000s and it still amounted to 60 per cent just 10 years ago. When phasing out coal was just an idea being batted around, many said it couldn’t be done. This is not dissimilar to the rhetoric today around decarbonizing the grid. But Alberta’s experience phasing out coal shows environmental progress of this magnitude is possible.

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