While nuclear falters and fossil fuel’s days are numbered, solar is taking off

A Canadian East-West-North-South renewable electricity grid is possible. We must start by rejecting the limits of our current mind-sets.
The cheapest source of electricity, solar, is also the cleanest and most abundant, writes Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.Photograph courtesy of Pexels.com/Engin Akyurt
Opinion
BY GREEN PARTY LEADER ELIZABETH MAY
June 1, 2026

In 2021, Australian engineer and inventor Saul Griffith wrote Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future.

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