Dispatchable Renewables: Selecting a Right Pathway

Clean Grid readiness is a major objective of Canada’s Clean Grid 2035 efforts and commitment to make all electricity generation in the country carbon net-zero. Making all the sources of electricity in power grids clean would be a tremendous step in Canada’s energy transition and low carbon economy growth.

Deploying on a very large scale variable renewables such as wind and solar in Canada requires an extremely significant power dispatchability effort, allowing the country’s power grids to maintain their reliability. Dispatchable generation refers to controllable and flexible sources of electricity that can promptly respond to demand at the request of power grid operators. The Clean Grid 2035 commitment assumes that all existing and new power dispatchability sources in Canada backing up variable renewables’ operations are clean.