Canada’s renewable energy investments paying off

Green power rallies Toronto Sun, 15 Nov 10, VANCOUVER – Backing Canada’s leading renewable energy companies wasn’t just a feel-good venture this past year. It made investors rich as shares of big producers enjoyed market-beating returns.But the rally — driven by a combination of yield-hungry investors, high payouts and a low interest rate environment — has left investors asking how much upside is still left…..

Producers and developers of power from hydro dams, wind, the sun and biomass have a strong fan base, but their appeal isn’t primarily environmental.

Many boast dividend yields above 5%, plus growth prospects that could boost their share prices and payout. Recent Canadian winners include big independent green power producers like Brookfield Renewable Power Fund and Innergex Renewable Energy.

Consistent cash flows from long-term contracts with utilities have brought dividend yields of 5% to 9% for Brookfield, Northland Power Income Fund and others, regular income that is increasingly important for investors, especially retiring baby boomers, as bond yields fall.

Canada’s benchmark 10-year bond yields about 3% and the S&P/TSX composite index has a dividend yield of about 2.7%…….

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Energy efficiency – theme for July 2019

Energy efficiency represents the single largest potential contributor to global emissions reduction, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA 2017). It should be a key part of the global energy strategy, for several reasons:

It could reduce global electric demand by more than 20 per cent, based on current rates in the U.S. power sector, while maintaining high levels of services such as heating and lighting.
It avoids the need for increased energy, capacity and grid services, making it the least expensive way to decarbonise at scale.
It can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by billions of tonnes.

A dramatic example of the power of energy efficiency is lighting. In 2017 the United States passed the milestone of 1 billion LED and CFL lights installed, avoiding 142 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide emissions, at a cost of about $7 per ton of avoided carbon dioxide. In contrast, the cumulative installed capacity of rooftop solar reached 8,000 MW in 2017, saving 8 million tonnes a year of carbon dioxide, at a cost of $360 per ton. Lighting efficiency thus yielded almost 18 times the avoided carbon dioxide, at about 2 per cent the cost per ton of rooftop solar.

Google provides another example of the power of energy efficiency. Its data centers now use 50 per cent less energy than the average data center, according to the company. Google also developed an improved chip, the TPU, which performs 83 times better than standard CPUs. The new chip allowed Google to reduce power consumption at its data centers by a factor of 30—far exceeding the effect on Google’s carbon footprint of all of the company’s renewable energy purchases. ” – John Woolard, Eco Business, 10 June 2019

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