Last week, junior economy minister Christopher Skeete spoke of an energy crisis in Quebec during a session at the National Assembly.
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.The debate on the future of Quebec energy has been well underway since last year’s election campaign and took a new turn with the announcement in January ofpremature departure, followed by those of other leaders. The opposition then spoke of a “crisis” at the utility.
He has constantly mentioned the need to build new dams to provide the electricity needed to decarbonize Quebec’s economy — that is to say, achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions — an objective to be achieved by 2050 in accordance with international commitments. However, industries were still emitting 30 per cent of Quebec’s GHGs in 2020.Article content
The premier indicated that Hydro-Québec’s electricity surpluses are declining and that it will take 100 terawatt-hours to completely decarbonize Quebec by 2050. “The government’s ambition means that there are currently more than 25,000 megawatts of requests from different companies,” Skeete confirmed in the exchanges.Article content
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