How Canada can crush decarbonization goals, create millions of jobs, and rake in a boatload of cash from America in one fell swoop

If Canada got aggressive with agrivoltaics we would have more healthy food for our tables, more income for our farmers, more solar jobs, lower electricity costs, less carbon pollution and the sweet satisfaction of helping our southern neighbours.

Solar makes up about only one per cent of all electricity generation in Canada, writes Joshua Pearce, John M. Thompson chair in Innovation, cross appointed in the Ivey Business School and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University.Photograph courtesy of Bruno, Pixabay.com

Opinion

BY JOSHUA PEARCE

June 2, 2025

For the first time, way back in 2011, my team proved solar photovoltaics had finally broke what we called “grid parity” throughout Canada, and then became flat out...

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