By: Philip Burgess Cox

A first-of-its-kind effort to gain a detailed picture of the energy aspirations of small, rural and remote communities across northern BC has sparked new conversations that will help shape the next decade of clean energy development in the province. 

The community-led conversations are part of the Northern Regional Energy Dialogues (NRED)—a five-year Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET) project developed in partnership with the University of Victoria (UVic) and University of Northern BC (UNBC), with support from the Northern British Columbia Climate Action Network (NorthCAN).

Led by UVic researchers Tamara Krawchenko and Kara Shaw, and Sinead Earley from UNBC, the NRED team has already sat down with communities spread across 1,100 km of northern terrain in the last eight weeks.

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