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Environment committee It's a very big role, as big as we can get it.
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee A deep building retrofit can bring down energy use in a building by 50% to 80%, whereas a regular retrofit—when we're not thinking in terms of systems—is only 20% to 30%. If we focus on the method by which we'll do it, we can get those really deep reductions. That's how we're goi
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Canada did pretty well with the feed-in tariffs, but then a lot of those programs and a lot of the contracts were cancelled, which is unfortunate. A few places that are leading.... Vietnam had one of the most rapid uptakes of renewable energy, starting with solar photovoltaic an
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Thanks for summarizing that, and thank you for the question. Those tax measures appear to me to be more on incubating and accelerating technology. Is that correct?
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Okay. Where I would say there needs to be more support is.... There are different stages of technology diffusion. One of the areas where technology tends to get really stuck is in the diffusion stage, which means making it into markets and making it into communities. What we nee
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee This is a really good question. Those are absolutely what we should be thinking about and where we should be going. Addressing climate change and energy use at the urban scale is a really critical lever that we have. For example, having waste heat capture and usage on the neighb
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Yes, absolutely. I'll start with the climate crisis. What we're seeing around the globe and here in Canada—I've experienced it both in Toronto and in British Columbia—is around extreme events and weather hazards due to climate change. This could be extreme heat events requiring
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Absolutely. Basically, these are technologies that are ready to go and are implementable on fairly short time scales, as long as we have really good policy and program design, which means administrative, regulatory and economic instruments and that type of thing. These are techno
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Not currently, no.
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee In terms of their utilization, one of the biggest barriers is lack of policy for their uptake. We've had really successful policies in Canada, such as feed-in tariff laws that allowed for a lot of different types of communities and organizations to develop these. Europe is contin
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee I've looked at—
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Yes, absolutely. I think it's a really important part of a just energy transition. This is what we hear everywhere. I think quite a few organizations in Canada are willing and able to start to support workforce transition in this area.
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Hello. Thank you for having me here. My Canada tri-council-funded research focuses on renewable energy transitions for communities in Canada and on nearly every continent. Canada can reach its 2030 targets to uphold its pledge made to the UNFCCC, which are only eight years away,
September 20th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Yes. That's what my Canada research chair, which was approved by external reviewers, is based on.
April 5th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka
Environment committee Not necessarily. My research is looking at.... I just published a paper in which we analyzed 47 of the most ambitious city renewable energy plans. We found that in a lot of places there is a reliance on rural areas. There's a lot of regional partnership between large municipaliti
April 5th, 2022Committee meeting
Dr. Christina Hoicka