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Pathways to Decarbonize Quebec’s Health Care Sector by 2040

Challenge: To answer the question: how can the Quebec health care system achieve its objective of net-zero emissions by 2040? Solution: Looking across buildings,...

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Dunsky Co-Authors Study Demonstrating Feasibility of Decarbonizing Canada’s Large Buildings to Meet Net-Zero Targets

Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors and RDH Building Science recently completed a study for the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) that proves the feasibility of...

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“Net Zero”: From Glasgow to Quebec

by Philippe Dunsky The following article is a translation of a blog post that first appeared in the publication Les Affaires as part of a regular column by Philippe...

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Energy Transition Insights: Canadian 2021 Election Results – Regulations (the “sticks”) and Incentives (the “carrots”)

What impact will a federal ZEV mandate have on Canadian utilities and municipalities? What does a cemented carbon tax mean for provinces with existing equivalency...

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Dunsky Measures the Value of Non-Energy Benefits in Energy Efficiency Programming in Ontario

Press release Dunsky is pleased to share a new report for our client that evaluates the value and impact of non-energy benefits (NEBs) of six efficiency programs...

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Dunsky to Support IESO in Identifying DER Potential in Ontario

Dunsky is pleased to announce that it has been retained by Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to conduct the province’s first ever Distributed...

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Energy Transition Insights: A Q&A with Three Dunsky Analysts

What’s it like to work at Dunsky? As a growing company we are constantly encouraged by the number of talented young professionals who want to make an impact by...

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Municipal Energy Efficiency Lending: Can New CMHC and FCM Funding Co-Exist?

The Government of Canada recently announced two initiatives to support energy efficiency upgrades in Canadian homes via the Canada Greener Homes Grant and an associated...

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Energy Transition Insights: A Watershed Moment

Are we witnessing a watershed moment in the clean energy transition? President Philippe Dunsky and Partner Raegan Bond discuss the historic investments and plans...

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The Potential for DERs: An Integrated Demand-Side Energy Resource Market Potential Study for the State of Rhode Island

Dunsky recently completed a comprehensive Market Potential Study for a wide array of demand-side energy resources (DERs) in Rhode Island. Commissioned by the State of...

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New Initiative to Support a Robust National ZEV Supply Chain

The Transition Accelerator and Electric Mobility Canada (supported by Dunsky Energy Consulting) are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative aimed at building...

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Solar Market Outlook in Nova Scotia

After a number of years of moderate but steady growth, the Nova Scotia residential solar market surged last year with the arrival of Efficiency Nova...

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Idaho’s Gas Savings Potential

Dunsky recently completed an energy efficiency potential study for the Intermountain Gas Company (IGC)—the natural gas utility serving some 350,000...

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EVs + PVs: A Holistic DER View

Electric vehicles (EVs) and solar power (PV) are often considered in silos. But as part of its long-term grid transformation strategy, our client, ENMAX Power, wanted...

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Introducing EVA: Dunsky’s EV forecast model helping utilities and governments plan for (and electrify) the future

As battery costs fall and electric vehicle adoption grows, governments and utilities are looking to understand how they can accelerate market uptake, while managing peak...

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The Economic Benefits of Energy Efficiency

118,000. That’s the number of new, full-time equivalent jobs that increased energy efficiency will create if the Pan-Canadian Framework (PCF) is implemented as...

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Defining what is achievable in the U.S. Midwest, the Northeast and Canada

The Dunsky team recently completed a series of potential studies, and has recently launched a series of new ones, to define what can be achieved – in energy, demand...

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Philippe Named to Energy Thought Leaders Group

Dunsky is pleased to announce that our president, Philippe Dunsky, has been named by the Government of Canada to its energy thought leaders advisory group, formally...

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Weatherizing Small Business in New England: A New Opportunity

Air sealing and insulation (aka weatherization) measures are critical to achieving energy savings goals, yet weatherizing the buildings that house small businesses has...

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How Much is Left? Massachusetts’ Remaining Efficiency Potential

Massachusetts is renowned for its ambitious energy efficiency savings and targets, regularly landing the #1 spot on the American Council for an Energy-Efficient...

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Toward Clean Mobility in Nova Scotia

Since Efficiency Nova Scotia’s inception in 2009, Dunsky has worked closely with the organization as it quickly evolved into one of North America’s energy efficiency...

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Solar & Storage in Ontario

When PowerStream (now Alectra), one of Ontario’s largest and most forward-looking electric utilities, was looking to the future, it called on Dunsky to assess the...

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Iowa’s Efficiency Potential

Dunsky was recently retained to lead a large-scale study of the potential for gas and electricity savings across every sector, market segment and technology option in...

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Evaluation of High-Performance Affordable Housing

The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) retained Dunsky’s services to carry out a post occupancy evaluation of the Beaver Barracks affordable housing...

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Smart Thermostats in Massachusetts

With the rapid emergence of new thermostat technologies, National Grid and EverSource (formerly NStar, CL&P, PSNH, WMECo and Yankee Gas) retained Dunsky to assess...