A price tag in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, and a project scope akin to that of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1800s.
That’s the scale of the massive investment in Canada’s electricity grid that experts say will be required in the near future, as the phase-out of fossil fuel-fired power generation combined with a rapid increase in demand for electricity puts never-before-seen demands on Canada’s electrical grid.
“The general consensus is that we will need to double or triple the size of our electricity system between now and 2050,” said Bruce Lourie, chair
