The City of Edmonton aims to be carbon neutral by 2050 and is on the verge of adopting a new energy transition strategy to help get it there. The Community Energy Transition Strategy is a 30-year roadmap to guide the city in lowering greenhouse gas emissions in line with international standards in the 2015 Paris agreement. City managers are estimating that energy transition programs and strategies will cost $100 million a year, about three per cent of the city's budget. Shafraaz Kaba, a co-chair of Edmonton's Energy Transition Climate Resilience Committee that helped craft the strategy, said the action plan reflects Edmonton's intentions to act fast. District energy systems like the one powering the Blatchford – the development planned for 30,000 residents using 100 per cent renewable energy, will need to be more common.

Source: CBC News March 27, 2021 00:22 UTC